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Poems to Listen By: Black Bird Soirée—08: Graveside

By Laurie Klein 2 Comments

3 crows on peaked roof

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Poems to Listen By: Black Bird Soirée 05—Poet, In Japan Alps

By Laurie Klein 9 Comments

solitary black bird against winter backdrop

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Poems to Listen By: Black Bird Soirée 04—A Plausible Story

By Laurie Klein 4 Comments

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Poems to Listen By: Black Bird Soirée 03—Magpie, Have You Seen My Sister?

By Laurie Klein 4 Comments

blackbird on sand

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Poems to Listen By: Black Bird Soirée 02—Into the Woods

By Laurie Klein 4 Comments

black bird on wooden post

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Poems to Listen By: Black Bird Soirée 01—Elementary

By Laurie Klein 7 Comments

black bird on plaza with brick building

This month, Laurie Klein’s latest audio series takes flight with crow poems from Megan Willome in Black Bird Soirée.

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Poems to Listen By: Time Lines 3—Sonnet 111

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Sunset at Pescadero Beach

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Poems to Listen By: Time Lines 2—Sonnet 116

By Laurie Klein 2 Comments

park bench in green foliage

Laurie Klein is back with another Time Lines episode and a riddle of unseen possibility, this time with Shakespeare’s Sonnets 116 and 123.

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Poems to Listen By: Time Lines 1—Sonnet 18

By Laurie Klein 10 Comments

dry bud in sunlight bokeh

Laurie Klein and her 96 year old mentor Pat Stien kick off a new Poems to Listen By series by reading Sonnets 18 and 73 in Time Lines.

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Poems to Listen By: Moonstruck 12—Nest in a Winter Tree

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wild flowers with dusk bokeh

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Poems to Listen By: Moonstruck 11—Moon Song

By Laurie Klein 3 Comments

sunrise at milford sound nz

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Poems to Listen By: Moonstruck 08—The Time is Midnight

By Laurie Klein 2 Comments

infant looking at camera on dark background

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Poems to Listen By: Moonstruck 07—Moon Crossing Bridge

By Laurie Klein 2 Comments

black and white river in fog

In a nod to the way poems can aid in processing grief and uncertainty, Laurie Klein reads Tess Gallagher’s “Moon Crossing Bridge.”

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Poems to Listen By: Moonstruck 06—Lunula

By Laurie Klein 4 Comments

mother with toddler in arms

Laurie Klein’s Moonstruck series takes us to a poetic reflection on motherhood and the moon with Susan Cowger’s “Lunula.”

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Poems to Listen By: Moonstruck 04—Delicate

By Laurie Klein 10 Comments

moonlight on waves

The moon is full of mystery and delicate secrets. In this episode of Poems to Listen By: Moonstruck, Laurie Klein reads L.L. Barkat’s “Delicate.”

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Poems to Listen By: Moonstruck 03—A Pause in the Sky

By Laurie Klein 6 Comments

Via Engiadina star trails and moonlight

In this episode of Poems to Listen By: Moonstruck, Laurie Klein reflects on the moon and passage of time with Dame Carol Ann Duffy, Gregory Orr and Kelli Russell Agodon.

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Poems to Listen By: Heart & Soil 08—Zinfandel

By Laurie Klein 10 Comments

The Dunes Golf Course trees on rolling green hills

Laurie Klein concludes her “Heart & Soil” Poems to Listen By podcast series with Jane Mead’s “Where the Zinfandel Pass Their Seasons in Mute Rows.”

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Poems to Listen By: Heart & Soil 06—Undertow

By Laurie Klein 4 Comments

Fresh snowfall at a pier

In this month’s Poems to Listen By episode, Laurie Klein features poems by Richard Maxson and Anne M. Doe Overstreet in a reflection on uncertainty.

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Poems to Listen By: Heart & Soil 04—Honan Duststorm

By Laurie Klein 2 Comments

Bicycle and dust

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Poems to Listen By: Heart & Soil 02—News from the Underground

By Laurie Klein 2 Comments

Heart & Soil News from the Underground

In this episode of Heart & Soil, Laurie Klein’s podcast of Poems to Listen by, enjoy this reflection on News from the Underground, and how the pesky creatures beneath our feet help restore the soil.

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