Murder Led Me to Yoga
People have different reasons for beginning a yoga practice. Health, fitness, peace of mind. Writer Clare Dederer says in her recent book Poser: my li...
People have different reasons for beginning a yoga practice. Health, fitness, peace of mind. Writer Clare Dederer says in her recent book Poser: my li...
Travis Nichols | Posted 05.25.2011
Here, in descending order, are the best selling books of contemporary poetry published in 2010.
Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.17.2011
How about you? How do you and I defeat ourselves when we've only just begun? What is it that really makes us hesitate, beneath our cover story? And why do we hesitate to tell the truth about our fear?
Eliezer Sobel | Posted 11.17.2011
Which weighs more on the What Really Matters scale, a life of selfless, loving service to loved ones, or a couple of published books? How do we measure the value of our time?
Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 11.17.2011
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with this one wild and precious life?" Mary Oliver I just re...
Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.17.2011
What makes this story timeless? While some are convinced Carroll's story was political, the deeper dimension has to do with identity crisis, something our ancestors faced before each developmental leap.
Elena Brower | Posted 11.17.2011
If you have an eating disorder, or notice destructive behavior in yourself, know that with love, we will slowly stop hurting ourselves, and begin to enlist our highest selves in our healing.
Kiri Westby | Posted 11.17.2011
How do we balance our parental instinct to protect and nurture with the tendency to become overprotective, fear-based parents who raise fearful, reticent children?
Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.17.2011
The question is what result does criticizing leave in its wake? Since criticizing, complaining, and gossiping are anything but solution-oriented, they bring destruction, not solution.
Kim Rosen | Posted 11.17.2011
For the last few generations, our nation has managed to marginalize poetry, an art that is and always has been central to the species.
Travis Nichols | Posted 05.25.2011
Every week, the Poetry Foundation compiles information from Nielsen Bookscan and puts together lists of the best selling books of poetry. Here are 2009's best selling books of contemporary poetry:
Tom Vander Ark | Posted 05.25.2011
Having read most of her previous work, I think Evidence is my favorite. As with previous collections, there are lots of birds and grass, but this collection is different. On one hand, her age is showing.
Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 11.17.2011
I know this sounds like a really "heavy" subject to be bringing up, especially now, in the middle of summer, when everybody just wants to escape the h...
Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011
Are these young people just talking to one another? Is anyone listening, really listening, to them? Trying to discover what the generation dubbed the "Millennials" cares about?
Paul LaRosa | Posted 11.17.2011