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• Books (3)
• Canonical Works (1)
• Readings (3)
• Audio/Video (25)
• Related Topics (2)

Books (3)

Li Bo Unkempt (2020) – Kidder Smith and Mike Zhai

Windfall Apples: Tanka and Kyoka (2010) – Richard Stevenson

Until Nirvana’s Time: Buddhist Songs from Cambodia (2022) – Trent Walker

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Canonical Works (1)

AN 4.231 Kavi Sutta: Poets (2018)

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Readings (3)

Reading the Miraculous Powers of Japanese Poetry: Spells, Truth Acts, and a Medieval Buddhist Poetics of the Supernatural (2005) – R. Keller Kimbrough

“Looking Over at the Mountains”: Sense of Place in the Third Karmapa’s “Songs of Experience” (2011) – Ruth Gamble

The Poet and the Reader (Nobel Lecture) (2020) – Louise Glück

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Audio/Video (25)

Featured:

• What a Poetic Mind Can Teach Us About How to Live (2023) – Jane Hirshfield
  ⭐ Recommended

  It’s holding a little, obsidian shard of the experience of being human. And because it’s gone into print, other people can read it and they can laugh with me at all our hope and uselessness

  1h 21m

  Online
• I Dream of Horses Eating Cops (2022) – Joshua Jennifer Espinoza and Ada Limón
  ⭐ Recommended

  i have so much hope for the future

  5 min

  Online
• Poem that Leaves Behind the Ocean (2022) – Jim Moore and Ada Limón

  My God is still there, the one I prayed to as a boy:
  he never answered but that didn’t keep me
  from calling out to him.

  5 min

  Online
• Summer Sorrow (2022) – Leonora Speyer and Ada Limón

  What shall meadow hold to please me,
  Spreading wide its scented waving…

  5 min

  Online

See also:

Buddhist Spirituality and the Contemplation of Nature Through Poetry (2018) – Charles Hallisey

Against Despair (2024) – Christian Wiman

Bomb Children (Interview) (2020) – Leah Zani

Some Other Sign that People Do Not Totally Regret Life (2012) – Sean Cole

Gimaazinibii’amoon: A Message to You (2021) – Margaret Noodin and Pádraig Ó Tuama

Bored (2019) – Margaret Atwood and Tracy K. Smith

Once in a Lifetime, Snow (2020) – Les Murray and Tracy K. Smith

A Study of Beauty (2022) – Patrick Rosal and Shira Erlichman

The Boatman (2021) – Carolyn Forché and Tracy K. Smith

[chiasmus with all the other animals] (2022) – Brenda Hillman and Ada Limón

i woke up and the day caught me (2021) – Kara Jackson and Tracy K. Smith

Famous (2023) – Naomi Shihab Nye and Shira Erlichman

Morning (2019) – Adam Zagajewski and Tracy K. Smith

Ozymandias (2019) – Percy Bysshe Shelley and Tracy K. Smith

I Have a Randezvous With Life (2022) – Countee Cullen and Ada Limón

Tangerine Peel (2021) – Mary Ruefle and Ada Limón

The Years That The Days and Months Turned Into (2022) – Shafer Hall and Ada Limón

They’ll Ask You Where it Hurts the Most (2021) – Kwame Opoku-Duku and Ada Limón

The Truth (2023) – Natasha Rao and Jason Schneiderman

Tyranny of the Human Face (2020) – Chase Berggrun and Tracy K. Smith

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Related Topics (2)

Supertopic

• Literature (General)

Subtopics (1)

• Writing Poetry