Christian Wiman — All My Friends Are Finding ...

“Politics by themselves are necessary but not sufficient … [and] poetry by itself is necessary but not sufficient. We must find a way to bring them together,” says Martín Espada, a poet and professor. With crystalline language, an all-seeing gaze, and innate musicality, he writes ...  Show more

After actor, dialect coach, and teacher Amanda Quaid was diagnosed with a serious illness in 2021, she responded by trying something new — she wrote poetry. She says, “I was looking for an art form that allowed me to be with uncertainty in a beautiful way.” The result is a captiv ...  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