Christian Wiman — All My Friends Are Finding ...

“For me, if a poem doesn't swing, it's really not much of a poem,” says Adrian Matejka, author of the collection Be Easy: New and Selected Poems. His work hums with music, from its references to David Bowie, Miles Davis, and others to its infectious rhythms, repetitions, and rhym ...  Show more

After listening to this exuberant interview, you’ll retire the phrase “lost in translation” from your vocabulary. Instead, writer and scholar Karen Leeder believes poetry can expand when translated, reaching new audiences and gaining new layers of meaning. Karen joins Pádraig Ó T ...  Show more

Christian Wiman joins Kevin Young to discuss “Far from Kingdoms” and “Outside, In Fact, There Wasn't Any Change,” by Patrizia Cavalli, translated by Judith Baumel, and his own poem “Eating Grapes Downward.” Wiman is a poet, essayist, editor, and translator, whose honors include t ...  Show more

Wil Beaucher is a Director, Writer, Creative, Life Coach and Certified Meditation Teacher. He is a beacon of perseverance, following your heart and surrendering to your truth. Our friendship has taken us through many phases of life and to deep Spiritual conversations...we even wr ...  Show more

Faith is great. It even seems unshakable at times…until.

Until the layoff. Until that friendship unravels. Until the loved one you've been praying for passes away. Until your vision for the future is totally upended by a loss you never saw coming.

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Elemental human capacities like friendship and love, teaching and learning, have tremendous, constant, practical force. We don’t think of these in terms of what has given our species the grit to endure through hard times and even evolve in the long run. They’re lived social intel ...  Show more