Naming the world with Kelli Russell Agodon's poem "The Naming of Things."由marmccabe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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