A poem read aloud does something a poem on the page cannot. These are the readings — some from poets who shaped me, two of my own.
The Poetry Oracle Podcast
Thirty-two episodes, and beginning again now at a poem a week. New episodes appear here automatically.
The Readings
Twenty-six poems, in my voice.
Start Close In
David Whyte
Live the Questions
Rilke
Self-Portrait
David Whyte
The Night House
Billy Collins
When Death Comes
Mary Oliver
You Were Brave in That Holy War
Hafiz
Sometimes I Say to a Poem
Hafiz
The Guest House
Jelaluddin Rumi
The Layers
Stanley Kunitz
Hatred
Wisława Szymborska
Beginners
Denise Levertov
The Gift
William Stafford
What Happens When You Get Lost
William Stafford
What We Want
Linda Pastan
To the Soul
W. S. Merwin
Promise of Blue Horses
Joy Harjo
Healing
D. H. Lawrence
Phoenix
D. H. Lawrence
Finding What You Didn’t Lose
John Fox
The Banker
Jim Dodge
When the Shoe Fits
Chuang Tzu
If Prayer Would Do It
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Matthew 6:6
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Remembering Puck
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Cradle & Womb
Timothy Hallford
Throne
Timothy Hallford
Other Films
Older work, still watched.
Every Hundred Years
A tribute to Joseph Campbell
Enter the Dreamtime in New Mexico
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