Weary well wishing in Bolina's "At War with the Cynics."Av marmccabe

Youth and striving in Kelly's "The Leaving."Av marmccabe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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