The Transformed Vision of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poet Malcolm Guite explores the dramatic and even prophetic parallels between the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and that of the titular character in his famous poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” (59 minutes)
Sacramental Poetics
Poet and Eastern Orthodox believer Scott Cairns explains how a good poem functions like an icon: it assists the process of our becoming aware of what is real, and it is generative in the ways it keeps opening up new understandings. (56 minutes)
“The essence of a moment, clearly perceived”
Haiku poet Gary Hotham reads his poetry and discusses how the form of haiku reveals the connection between creatures and creation. (45 minutes)
Bearing witness through poetry
Roger Lundin discusses the incarnational witness of poet Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004), exploring his service to truth and to his native tongue, Polish. (16 minutes)
Czesław Miłosz: A Poet of Luminous Things
Roger Lundin discusses the themes, breadth, and depth of poet Czesław Miłosz's work, explaining how Milosz incarnated in his life and work a sense of exile and alienation so common to modern man. (43 minutes)
Soundings of the human soul
Professor John H. Timmerman discusses the poetry of the late Jane Kenyon (1947-1995) and his visit to her home, Eagle Pond Farm. (16 minutes)
Jane Kenyon: Living and Dying at Eagle Pond Farm
Biographer John H. Timmerman discusses the life and work of poet Jane Kenyon (1947–1995). (53 minutes)