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Poems to Listen By: Buoyancies—4: Lilt

By Laurie Klein 2 Comments

rocky seashore

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Poems to Listen By: Buoyancies—2: Meet Kid Larkin

By Laurie Klein 4 Comments

bubbles on blue

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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: Moonstruck 05—Moonchild

By Laurie Klein 2 Comments

woman with braids in moonlight

The latest episode of Moonstruck in Laurie Klein’s Poems to Listen by reflects on poems that speak to childhood traumas with a poem by Lucille Clifton and Reuben Jackson’s poem about Trayvon Martin.

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Poems to Listen By: Moonstruck 02—Facts About the Moon

By Laurie Klein 4 Comments

white flower with moonlight bokeh

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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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Poems to Listen By: Heart & Soil—01 What Are Poets For?

By Laurie Klein 4 Comments

Sunrise at the sea

In the first episode of a new Poems to Listen By audio series, Laurie Klein shares a poem from Meredith Stricker and asks, What are poets for?

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Poems to Listen By: Sharing the Canopy 08—Poetics

By Laurie Klein 9 Comments

trees in swamp

Trees and tree poems are an apt reflection of the writing process. In the eighth episode of Under the Canopy, Laurie Klein shares a poem from A. R. Ammons.

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Poems to Listen By: Under the Canopy 03—Benedictus

By Laurie Klein 8 Comments

Under the Canopy snowy trees

In her latest Under the Canopy episode, Laurie Klein reflects on the way trees remind us of eternity and mortality, with poetry from Paul Willis and Luci Shaw.

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Poems to Listen By: Sharing the Canopy 02—Motherhood

By Laurie Klein 13 Comments

Poems to listen by under the canopy

In the latest Poems to Listen By: Under the Canopy podcast, Laurie Klein shares “Motherhood” from Diane Loretta Walker and considers the stories trees hold inside.

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Pod Club Announcement: Listen with us to Radiolab’s “Memory and Forgetting”

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

Podcast Radiolab Memories

Join us for our next Pod Club discussion over Radiolab’s “Memory and Forgetting” and discuss how memories are formed, erased and altered.

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Pod Club: Hidden Brain’s “Watch Your Mouth”

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Podclub discussion language blue and yellow shapesPodclub discussion language Jean Nouvel's Concert Hall, Copenhagen

In this week’s Pod Club discussion, we consider the way that language shapes the way we think and perceive the world (rather than the other way around) with Hidden Brain’s interview with cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky.

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