There is a fine line between admiring someone and exploiting them. Leah Anderson explores how it feels to be singled out. “You Ask Me What I Am So You May …
The last of our poems for our 40 days of poetry is History Will Remember by Donna Ashworth. Thanks for listening and note that our new Globe-trotting Travel Series begins …
Day 38: Sorrowful Garden by Juan Ramón Jiménez, translated by H. R. Hays. Sometimes it’s just too hard to give voice to what is wrong. I apologize for the delay, …
Day 34: Today’s poem is Tidings by Czeslaw Milosz. It’s a beautiful poem about the beauty and tragedy of civilization. How can we even begin to define or describe it?
Day 33! Today’s poem is Every Time I Climb a Tree by David McCord. Being all cooped up in quarantine, it’s easy to get stuck in the negative spin we …
Today’s poem is by Oscar Gonzales and speaks of youth, when it seems that our elders will live forever and the days stretch on without end, full of joy and …
Day 31: Today’s poem is from Terry Tempest William‘s When Women Were Birds and was suggested by Janice Van Derbur. We forget how wonderful the natural world is and how …
Day 30: My dear friend Maureen McCarthy suggested this beautiful poem, Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski. It’s about remembering the good things, which are often small …
