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• Books (6)
• Canonical Works (1)
• Readings (4)
• Audio/Video (31)
• Related Topics (2)

Books (6)

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

Language between God and the Poets: Maʿnā in the Eleventh Century (2018) – Alexander Key

Songs on the Road: Wandering Religious Poets in India, Tibet, and Japan (2021) – Stefan Larsson and Kristoffer af Edholm

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

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

How to Communicate (2023) – John Lee Clark

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Canonical Works (1)

AN 4.231 Kavi Sutta: Poets (2018)

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Readings (4)

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

Selected Verses of the Elder Nuns (2018) – Charles Hallisey

“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 (31)

Featured:

• Drip (2019) – Quenton Baker and Tina Chang
  ⭐ Recommended

  Take your time,
  enjoy the fat chill
  of each lick

  5 min

  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
• Letter to the Local Police (2020) – June Jordan and Tracy K. Smith
  ⭐ Recommended

  To be specific, there are practically thousands of
  the aforementioned abiding in perpetual near riot
  of wild behavior, indiscriminate coloring, and only
  the Good Lord Himself can say what diverse soliciting…

  5 min

  Online
• Defeat (2021) – Kahlil Gibran and Tracy K. Smith

  Defeat, my Defeat, my shining sword and shield,
  In your eyes I have read
  That to be enthroned is to be enslaved,
  And to be understood is to be leveled down

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• 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

Sunflowers in the Median (2022) – Natalie Homer and Ada Limón

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

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

Let’s Crawl Into That Photograph and Stay There for a While (2021) – Rachel McKibbens and Ada Limón

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

Eliza Harris (2020) – Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Tracy K. Smith

Famous (2023) – Naomi Shihab Nye and Shira Erlichman

Invocation (2021) – W. Todd Kaneko and Ada Limón

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

Poetry for All (Podcast) – Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen

The Slowdown

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Related Topics (2)

Supertopic

• Literature (General)

Subtopics (1)

• Writing Poetry