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Sahar Fathi – All-the-time Home
Iranian-American poet Sahar Fathi offers a discourse on longing and nostalgia with her incredibly poignant poem “All-the-time Home”. In lines thick with memory, Shar’s unique perspective as a daughter...
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‘The Only Way To Be Free’– Oren Jay Sofer on Why Mindfulness Is More Than...
“Life is made of moments. If we are not present, they slip by as in a dream.”– Oren Jay SoferTweet In his book Freedom from the Known, Jiddu Krishnamurti wrote: ‘Freedom is a state of mind—not freedom...
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Joshua St. Claire & Amber Winter – Out Into the Light
Poets Joshua St. Claire and Amber Winter weave together a collaborative duet, offering a traditional kasen renga with “Out Into the Light”. This unique poem is an enthralling experience, fascinating...
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Announcing Our Pushcart Nominees for 2024
Please join us in celebrating with Mary McGinnis, Dimitri Papadopoulos, Steve Fay and Sheila Lynch-Benttinen for their nominations to the 2024 Pushcart Prize. What is the Pushcart Prize? (From the...
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Enlightenment is an Accident – Tim Burkett on How to Be More Accident Prone
In this episode of the Dewdrop Dialogues podcast, I talk with Tim Burkett, Zen Buddhist priest and author of “Enlightenment is an Accident.” Tim shares his journey into Zen Buddhism, which began in...
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Wendy Blaxland – Midwinter fire
Prolific Australian writer Wendy Blaxland presents the sparseness of three warm lines to ward off the boreal chill in her poem “Midwinter fire”. Looking back at humanity’s ancient kinship with fire,...
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Naomi Shihab Nye – The Art of Disappearing
“Walk around feeling like a leaf.Know you could tumble any second.Then decide what to do with your time.”– Naomi Shihab NyeTweet With the festive season upon us, the questions of appearance and...
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Christie Gardiner – Faith, perhaps
In Christie Gardiner’s “Faith, perhaps”, she shines the yellow-green glow of fireflies on the struggle to retain holiness in one’s life. Describing the sway of feeling and knowing God to feeling as...
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Laura Fargas – Kuan Yin
“She is at the brink of never being hurt againbut pauses to say, All of us. Every blade of grass.”– Laura FargasTweet In Mahayana Buddhism there is a figure called Kuan Yin or Avalokiteshvara who is a...
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Siddhi Soman – Nurture
Poet Siddhi Soman escorts readers to her childhood in rural India, evoking nostalgia, wistfulness, and sorrow about what’s been left to decay with her poem “Nurture”. With lines which begin bright and...
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Kashiana Singh – Unknowing
Kashiana Singh closes out our year here at The Dewdrop with simplicity, wisdom, and quietude with her string of haiku, “Unknowing”. Each haiku of “Unknowing” forms a self-contained harbor of serenity,...
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‘The Human Being Appears’– Abdulrazak Gurnah on the Pleasure and Importance...
“I believe that writing has to show what can be otherwise.”– Abdulrazak GurnahTweet In this rousing acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to him in 2021, Tanzanian-born British...
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A Fire Runs Through All Things: Susan Murphy on How We Can Meet the Climate...
In this podcast episode, Vanessa chats with Susan Murphy, the author of “A Fire Runs Through All Things, Zen Koans for Facing the Climate Crisis.” Susan discusses the inspiration behind her book,...
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Donald Mace Williams – A Translated Passage from “Beowulf”
Donald Mace Williams breathes new light into the 10th century Old English epic poem Beowulf, written in iambic meter. In this particular translated passage of the legendary narrative, King Hrothgar...
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Nathan Bakken – call it resurrection
Poet Nathan Bakken breaths oxygen into an ember of warmth in a place of cold stone, darkness, and death with their poem “call it resurrection”. Nathan’s explanation of their poem reveal how a piece...
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Tess Gallagher – Choices
“Suddenly, in every tree, an unseen nestwhere a mountain would be.”– Tess GallagherTweet In his essay on outer and inner ecologies, activist Satish Kumar wrote, “Making peace with ourselves is a...
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Christine Andersen – Forest Bathing
Christine Andersen’s poem “Forest Bathing” lusciously invites readers into the slow simple peace of the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku. Defined as making contact with and taking in the atmosphere...
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Kathryn Kimball – 432Hz
With Zen-like precision and sparseness, poet Kathryn Kimball leads us down currents of time, connection, and calmness with her poem “432Hz”. “My piano tuner recently mentioned to me that some...
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Kimberly Phinney – Exalted Ground
In her poem “Exalted Ground”, award-winning educator and poet Kimberly Phinney blends the boundaries of holiness and the natural world. Her lines show us that the trees whisper psalms and prayers into...
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Jo Matthews – And what about prayers
In her powerful three-part sequence poem “And what about prayers”, poet Jo Matthews explores the potential and constraints of prayer and faith. In her poem, you watch how views and expressions of...
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