poetry

poetry

Producing a narrated slideshow takes a fair bit of time, even it's brief. Our producer traces her journey and the small world we travel in.

"We're drying them out. But I'm looking closely — a lot of these pages, it's not reparable. This is just heartbreaking to look at."

A passage from Letters to a Young Poet cited by Novogratz.

Do you haiku? John Lederach shares 12 haiku based on a three-day dialogue with Krista Tippett and others. These conversational poems capture the tension, promise, and paradox of moral action and meaningful language.

Sometimes forgiveness comes easiest to the youngest of us.

A preview of one of the beautiful poems read by Alicia Partnoy for this program.

How we arrived at choosing the late Lucille Clifton's "won't you celebrate with me" — with video.

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