Friday October 21: James Hansen
Austin discusses the "land based" poetry of this contemporary writer.
Friday October 14: Larry Levis
Austin looks at the writing of Levis who often employed an imagist or surrealist approach in his work
Friday October 7: Eavan Boland
Austin discusses the work of Irish-American poet Eavan Boland. Her work deals with the Irish national identity, and the role of women in Irish history.
Friday September 30: Jane Kenyon
Like Keats, she attempts to redeem morbidity with a peculiar kind of gusto, one which seeks a quiet annihilation of self-identity through identification with benign things.”
Friday September 23: Daniel Smith
Austin shares time with his father, the land based poet Dan Smith
Friday September 16: W.S. Merwin
Exploring the writings of Pullitzer Prize winning poet W.S. merwin
Thoreau College Podcast
Episode 15 - John Vervaeke on a Meaningful Education John Vervaeke and Jacob dissect the importance of thinking, reasoning, wisdom, and meaning, and ways to overcome the barriers we face today in understanding these facets of our humanity. John Vervaeke, PhD, is an...
Welcoming Strangers with Troubadour Larry Long & Storyteller Tom Thibodeau
The power of strangers gives us the moral imagination where we have the capacity to care for not only family members but people we do not even know. Mother Teresa was asked, “Mother, why do you do the work you do?” She looked at the reporter and said, “If I...
Natural Wonders #40
We take another walk into the sand country with Aldo Leopold, celebrating the glory of October. We read from A Sand County Almanac the last part of the October chapter, Too Early and Red Lanterns. "Getting up too early is a vice habitual in horned...