Look and Listen #2: The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed by Joel Thompson
If you haven’t heard Joel Thompson’s Seven Last Words of the Unarmed, prepare yourself for this stirring work. This is a scoring for full orchestra; the original was for a …
Featured Artist: Sarah Jane Justice
Welcome energetic and incisive performance poet Sarah Jane Justice from Adelaide, South Australia. Her video poem, Longing, is an honest, hard-hitting look at how society turns its back on those …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #28: You Clap for Me Now from the UK via The Guardian
Globe-trotting Travel Series Day 28 features “You Clap for Me Now,” a poem by Darren James Smith, a content writer for Bridge Studios, a creative agency affiliated with News UK. …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #27: The Barton Family, Bangkok, Thailand
Day 27 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series comes to you from Bangkok, Thailand. 5 year-old Emilie Barton imagines what it would be like to have a father in the medical …
Quote for Today: Brian Andreas
You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn’t that far to go. Or the time …
40 days of poetry: Day 23: Kindness: Naomi Shihab Nye
The poem for Day 23 is Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye. May we all use our trials to learn how to be kind rather than getting bitter and mean.
40 days of poetry: Day 20: To a Dancer by Katherine McDaniel
40 days of poetry: Day 20: To a Dancer by Katherine McDaniel. This is a poem that I wrote a few years ago. It seems all the more pertinent now …
Quote for Today: Barbara Brown Taylor
Later, when I stood in front of an altar waving incense, I would remember standing in front of the bar at Dante’s waving cigarette smoke out of my face, and …
Quote for Today: David Dark
I want very badly to challenge the ease with which we succumb to the false divide of labels, that moment in which our empathy gives out and we refuse to …
Quote for Today: Bonnie Badenoch
It is rather paradoxical for our task-focused self when it isn’t the quality of the practice, but our honest and humble acceptance of the emerging moment, that prepares us for …