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Back to Search“Ars Poetica #100: I Believe” by Elizabeth Alexander
Episode 1134
Today, a poem with a poignant question to live: “...and are we not of interest to each other?” Carry Elizabeth Alexander’s reading of her poem “Ars P…
1 year, 10 months ago
Luis Alberto Urrea — On Our Belonging to Each Other
Episode 1133
We humans have this drive to erect barriers between ourselves and others, Luis Alberto Urrea says, and yet this makes us a little crazy. He is an exu…
1 year, 10 months ago
Ross Gay — On the Insistence of Joy
Episode 1132
In our world of so much suffering, it can feel hard or wrong to invoke the word "joy." Yet joy has been one of the most insistent, recurrent rallying…
1 year, 11 months ago
Janine Benyus and Azita Ardakani Walton — On Nature's Wisdom for Humanity
Episode 1131
In this all-new episode, Krista engages biomimicry pioneer Janine Benyus in a second, urgent conversation, alongside creative biomimicry practitioner…
1 year, 11 months ago
Befriend Your Body: A Compassionate Body Scan
Episode 1130
In a time of stress, uncertainty, and isolation, Christine Runyan turns our attention to what often evades our awareness — the response of our nervou…
1 year, 11 months ago
Christine Runyan — On Healing Our Distressed Nervous Systems
Episode 1129
The years of pandemic and lockdown are still working powerfully on us from the inside. But we have trouble acknowledging this, much less metabolizing…
1 year, 11 months ago
“Joy is the Justice (We Give Ourselves)” by J. Drew Lanham
Episode 1128
We are overjoyed to share this heart-stirring performance with you, which transpired when we invited the ornithologist/poet/former On Being guest J. …
1 year, 11 months ago
Lyndsey Stonebridge and Lucas Johnson — On Love, Politics, and Violence (Channeling Hannah Arendt)
Episode 1127
Here is a stunning sentence for you, written by Lyndsey Stonebridge, our guest this hour, channeling the 20th-century political thinker and journalis…
1 year, 11 months ago
New From Poetry Unbound: A Series on Conflict and the Human Condition
Episode 1126
A taste of a special mini-season of Poetry Unbound — bringing contemplative curiosity and the life-nurturing tether of poetry to the very present mat…
1 year, 11 months ago
Colette Pichon Battle — On Knowing What We're Called To
Episode 1125
There is an ecological transformation unfolding in the places we love and come from. On a front edge of this reality, which will affect us all, Colet…
1 year, 11 months ago