On October 29, 2024, I sat down with Ellen Miller-Mack, Jon Plodzik, and Riley Bowen at the WMUA radio station at UMass for the Poet Talk series to discuss poetry, dreams, and waking up ancient stories.

Show notes

Listen in as we discuss Lucille Clifton’s poem, “The Times,” which launched a discussion about the troubling times we have known in the past, and the ones we are living through today. Then we travel through time to Ancient Mesopotamia, up to the present, and into the timeless realm of dreams and the imagination.

Here are links to resources I mention in the broadcast:

• The Times, by Lucille Clifton, which I cite here as one of my favorite poems by one of my favorite poets. (Timestamp 1:48)
• The Life of H: Sarah, Reimagined where I share poems and poetic musings about Sarah, Hagar, and Abraham and my efforts to wake up stories for Genesis and find their relevance to our life and times today. (Timestamp 5:30)
• Dreaming on the Page, my book about tapping into your dreamy imagination to supercharge your writing. (Timestamp 27:32)
• 30 Poems in November, where you can learn more about my poem-a-thon to raise money for free English classes for immigrants including refugees and asylum seekers in western Massachusetts. (Timestamp 55:49)