Other Voices on the Blog
As you read these blog articles, make a point of checking the author’s name at the beginning of the post. You’ll start to see some new names. I will be slowly be bringing other voices to the Poetry...
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Meeting The Mountain: Taoist Poetry & True Intimacy
Not surprisingly, the poetry of the Taoist tradition is steeped in Taoism’s core values: a close observation and deep honoring of the rhythms of the natural world; a delight in simplicity, play and...
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Haiku, and the Art of Disappearing
Would you like to disappear? Haiku can show you the way! ‘How painful it is to see people all wrapped up in themselves,’ commented Ryokan. Well, it’s unwrapping time, for all of us now, time to let go....
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Songs of the Soul 2012
If you are going to be in the San Francisco area between March 16 and 18, this is an event you shouldn’t miss! Poetry readings and discussions, Sufi music, explorations of Sufi philosophy and prayer...
View ArticleFrom moment to moment
I had an unexpected email dialog over the weekend, one I found deeply moving and inspiring. I am still sifting through my thoughts and emotional responses– A reader of the Poetry Chaikhana sent me a...
View ArticleLife & Death, Belief & Meaning
I forwarded many of your email messages and blog comments to ebj. He sent this note and two more poems in response… ———— I am deeply moved, both by folks’ words and what I sense of their energy within...
View ArticleVideo: Gabriel Rosenstock – Haiku, Art, and Wonder
An excellent discussion by Gabriel Rosenstock on how haiku helps to tame that monkey mind and opens us to wonder of life… all in Irish (with English subtitles). Oh, and we get paper airplanes...
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