Warming God's hands with our fire in Daniel B. Summerhill's poem.Por marmccabe

Eric Kocher's re-entry into the world after a red-eye flight wonderfully disorients in his poem "Red Eye Home."Por marmccabe

Emily gives us what-for in this poem by Betsy Sholl. Are you listening?Por marmccabe

Love and loss and what is left behind beautifully detailed in this poem by Jordan Smith.Por marmccabe

Clare Goulet gets down low to hear what wisdom this lichen can impart.Por marmccabe

Reality check on climate change in this short poem by Heather Sellers.Por marmccabe

Love of country under scrutiny in my poem "Pro Patria."Por marmccabe

Details and attention weave together this disparate poem's lines: "Evidence of Tenderness" by Lauren Camp.Por marmccabe

The hazards and dull horror of war and John Balaban's vivid "The Guard at the Bin Thuy Bridge."Por marmccabe

Small subversions and what poetry can do, seen at work in "Perserving an Ecosystem" by Christina Olivares.Por marmccabe

Counting blessings, however mixed, under consideration and this Jane Hirshfield poem: "Counting, This New Year's Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me."Por marmccabe

All things connected in this Li-Young Lee poem, "One Heart."Por marmccabe

Remembering and misremembering and an old poem: Thomas Bailey Aldrich, "Memory."Por marmccabe

Star-gazing with Wordsworth, and thinking about the notorious denizens of the planet Earth.Por marmccabe

Two poems on faith and doubt and the small voice inside.Por marmccabe

"Burning Box Braid on East & 94th, Tulsa, Oklahoma" by Kweku Abimbola explores the maintenance of old traditions in new lands, holding the "us" amid the "other," but understanding too that we are all "other" and "us" as well.Por marmccabe

Reading "Vesper Sparrows" by Deborah Digges and thinking about humanity.Por marmccabe

Going along to get along, and Anne Carson's short-short "Getaway" considered in this podcast.Por marmccabe

Gerard Manley Hopkins and reveling in the death of some things and the birth of others in his poem "That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection."Por marmccabe

Lost on a byway in this quirky poem by Jackie Craven.Por marmccabe

Tomas Transtromer's "Kort Paus I Orgelkonserten," translated by Patty Crane, and memory and experience considered in this podcast.Por marmccabe

Patrick Rosal's prayer and meditation on home and hope, grief and ongoing.Por marmccabe

Loving the world and turn of the century French poet Anna de Noailles's poem "L'impreinte" in my translation.Por marmccabe

Hope arising from suffering considered in Audre Lorde's "Litany for Survival."Por marmccabe

Memorializing Saara Raappana with this poem of hers, "Manifesto of What Breaks."Por marmccabe

Human's inhumanity and the love required as counterbalance in consideration, and Kumunyakaa's stunning poem of the Vietnam War Memorial, "Facing It."Por marmccabe

Hearts and wants, the shape of desire, and "Heart to Heart" by Rita Dove considered in this podcast.Por marmccabe

Fathers and memory and empathy explored in this consideration of Bruce Weigl's poem "The Harp."Por marmccabe

Christian Wiman and his poem about shifting beliefs and speeding time and friends, "All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs."Por marmccabe

Thoughts on Kay Ryan's poem "The Light of Interiors" and the importance of friendship.Por marmccabe

William Snyder's poem "The Hush" is featured, and thinking about noise and silence.Por marmccabe

Linda Pastan's poem "Espaliered Pear Trees" inspires this episode considering humankind's incessant attempts to control nature.Por marmccabe

In memory of Stu Bartow and his fine poetry and his haikuist's eye.Por marmccabe

Thinking about Bob Hicok's poem "All life is life in art" and "doing" versus "being" and the meaning of life.Por marmccabe

A short essay thinking about Gail DiMaggio's poem "Metta for Judy," from her forthcoming collection What She Made of It.Por marmccabe

Thinking about Gerald Stern's poem "Day of Grief" and the sense of time and its passage, and life's unfolding.Por marmccabe

Considering "Book Four" by Kathleen Graber, and time, collecting things, and letting things go.Por marmccabe

Remembering poet and friend Naton Leslie, and his poem "In the Year of my Birth Elvis Records Heartbreak Hotel."Por marmccabe

A consideration of creativity and making art, and Jane Hirshfield's poem "Rebus."Por marmccabe

A consideration of faith and Bruce Beasley's poem "Aphasic Echolalia."Por marmccabe

Considering in this podcast Carol Frost's visceral and startling poem "To Kill a Deer." Not for the faint at heart. Frank images from a deer hunt.Por marmccabe

Neil Carpathios's poem serves as this podcast's poem lens. Find the text of the poem and the podcast script on MarilynOnaRoll.wordpress.com.Por marmccabe

Mary Oliver's poem Wild Geese is the lens through which this podcast considers the world.Por marmccabe