Ada Limn is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. Yeah. I chose a couple of poems that you wrote again that kind of speak to this. Creativity. until every part of it is run through with And that was in shorter supply than one would think. We meet longings for justice and healing by equipping for reflection, repair, and joy. A friend Also: Kristin Brogdon, Lindsey Siders, Brad Kern, John Marks, Emery Snow and the entire staff at both Northrop and the Ted Mann Concert Hall of the University of Minnesota. And there was an ease, I think, that living in the head-only world was kind of a poets dream on some level. And even as it relieves us of the need to sum everything up. Definitely. But I think there was something deeper going on there, which was that idea of, Oh, this is when you pack up and you move. And I even had a pet mouse named Fred, which you would think I wouldve had a more creative name for the mouse, but his name was Fred. Limn: And then you go, Oh no, no, thats just recycling. So thats in the poem. and what I do not say is: I trust the world to come back. That its not my neighborhood, and they look beautiful. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista. And I want you to read it. Winters icy hand at the back of all of us. Flipboard. Only my head is for you. The phrase mental health itself makes less and less sense in light of the wild interactivity we can now see between what weve falsely compartmentalized as physical, emotional, mental, even spiritual. On Being, which began on public radio, has been named a best podcast by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, the Webbys, iHeart Radio with more than 400 million downloads. Page 40. And then what we find in the second poem is a kind of evolution. I guess maybe you had to quit doing that since you had this new job. has lost everything, when its not a weapon, when it flickers, when it folds up so perfectly, you can keep it until its needed, until you can, love it again, until the song in your mouth feels, like sustenance, a song where the notes are sung. And one of them this is also on The Hurting Kind is Lover, which is page 77. "On Being," a weekly interview show about the mysteries of human existence, hosted by Krista Tippett, airs on nearly 400 public radio stations, with more than half a million weekly listeners . But you said I dont know, I just happened to be I saw you again today. Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living. Tippett: And then a trauma of the pandemic was that our breathing became a danger to strangers and beloveds. And so, its so hard to speak of, to honor, to mark in this culture. Yeah. This is like a self-care poem. And were at a new place, but we have to carry and process that. Krista Tippett: I really believe that poetry is something we humans need almost as much as we need water and air. Winters icy hand at the back of all of us. I write. I just saw her. And that there was this break when we moved from pictographic language, which is characters which directly refer to the things spoken, and when we moved to the phonetic alphabet. It feels important to me, right now, because I want to talk to you about this a little bit, what weve been through. So would you read, its called Before, page 46. On her show she promoted her new book, Einstein's God, and if the show is any indication, this new enterprise promises to be a fun fest for people inclined . enough of the will to go on and not go on or how Also because so much of whats been and again, its not just in the past, what has happened, has been happening below the level of consciousness in our bodies. Now, somethings, breaking always on the skyline, falling over Written and read by Funny thing about grief, its hold And it felt like this is the language of reciprocity. , which was a couple of years before that, certainly pre-pandemic, in the before times, was the way you wrote, a way that you spoke of the same story of yourself. Ive been reading Ada Limn for years, and was so happy when she was named the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. The fear response, the stress response, it had so many other kinds of ripple effects that were so perplexing. Tippett: Thank you. Black bark, slick yellow leaves, a kind of stillness that feels Its the . This is amazing. And this poem was basically a list of all the poems I didnt think I could write, because it was the early days of the pandemic, and I kept thinking, just that poetry had kind of given up on me, I guess. Two families, two different I am a hearth of spiders these days: a nest of trying. lover, come back to the five-and-dime. And I also just wondered if that experience of loving sound and the cadence of this language that was yours and not yours, if that also flowed into this love of poetry. Tippett: Yeah. thing, forever close-eyed, under a green plant. As . Im really longing I realized as I was preparing for this, Im just Of course, I read poetry, I read a lot of poetry in these last years, but I realized Im craving hearing poetry. Replenishment and invigoration in your inbox. Why that color? Its the thing that keeps us alive. So maybe just to use a natural world metaphor to just dip our toes into the water, would you read Sanctuary? A student of change and of how groups change together. Yeah. I feel like our breath is so important to how we move through the world, how we react to things. And then a trauma of the pandemic was that our breathing became a danger to strangers and beloveds. Tippett: And I also just wondered if that experience of loving sound and the cadence of this language that was yours and not yours, if that also flowed into this love of poetry. Stood for the many mute mouths of the sea, of the land? And it really struck me that how much I was like, How do I move through this world? Remembering what it is to be a body, I think to be a woman who moves through the world with a body, who gets commented on the body. I wrote it and then I immediately sent it to an editor whos a friend of mine and said, I dont know if you want this. And it was up the next day on the website. And that between space was the only space that really made sense to me. Its got breath, its got all those spaces. But in reality its home to so many different kind of wildlife. The caesura and the line breaks, its breath. It touches almost every aspect of human life in almost every society around the world right now. and you forget how to breathe. into anothers green skin, But its also a land that is really incredibly beautiful and special and sacred in a lot of different ways. Tippett: You see what I did? With. It suddenly just falls apart [laughter], Limn: and I feel like there are moments that I travel a lot in South America, with my husband, and by the end of the second week, my brain has gone. Before I bury him, I snap a photo and beg We were brought together in a collaboration between Northrop at the University of Minnesota and Milkweed Editions. And it is definitely wine country and all of the things that go along with that. days a little hazy with fever and waiting Krista Tippett; Filtrer Krista Tippett Voir les critres de classement. [Laughter] I feel like I could hear that response, right? The one that always misses where Im not. But I also feel a little bit out of practice with this live event thing. That you can be joyful and you can actually be really having a wonderful time. The British psychologist Kimberley Wilson works in the emergent field of whole body mental health, one of the most astonishing frontiers we are on as a species. Do you remember the Colbert Report when Stephen Colbert was doing the earlier show, and he had this one skit where he said, I love breathing, I could do it all day long. [laughter] And I always think about that because of course, its so ironic that we have to think about our breath. The listener wants to understand the humanity behind the words of the other, and patiently summons one's own best self and one's own best words and questions.". Theres whole books about how to breathe. and desperate, enough of the brutal and the border, Tippett: I have your books, and theres some, too. And I think Id just like to end with a few more poems. So would you read, its called Before, page 46. And then I kept thinking, What are the other things I can do that with? [laughter] Because there are a lot of unhelpful things that have been told to me. April 4, 2008. Renamed On Being with Krista Tippett, the show was broadcast on more than 400 stations nationwide and, as a podcast, was regularly downloaded millions of times a month. My mother says, Oh yeah, you say that now.. In this spirit, our ecosystem of offerings launching across 2023 serve a far-flung global web of listeners/practitioners. Sometimes its just staring out the window. Its wonderful. Wisdom Practices and Digital Retreats (Coming in 2023). All of this, as Dacher sees it now, led him deeper and deeper into investigating the primary experience of awe in human life moments when we have a sense of wonder, an experience of mystery, that transcends our understanding. I am human, enough I am alone and I am desperate, hoping our team wins. And for us, it was Sundays. She is a former host of the poetry podcast. Music: Seven League Boots by Zo Keating. Tippett: as you said, to give instruction or answers, where to give answers would be to disrespect the gravity of the questions. Yeah, Ive got a lot of feelings moving through me. And I kept thinking how I missed all my family, and I missed my father and his wife, and I missed my mother and stepfather. And it says, You are here. And I felt like every day Id write a poem was literally putting that little, You are here dot on a map. A scholar of belonging. A scholar of magic. She grew up loving science fiction, and thought wed be driving flying cars by now; and yet, has found in speculative fiction the transformative force of vision and imagination that might in fact save us. On Being with Krista Tippett On Being Studios Society & Culture 4.6 9.1K Ratings; A season of big, new, beautiful On Being conversations is here. I am too used to nostalgia now, a sweet escape. Limn: Yeah. Find them at, Dedicated to reconnecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. no hot gates, no house decayed. Science and the Human Spirit. I wonder if Im here again today or in a new place. And that was really essential to my practice of who I was as a creative person in the middle of such an enormous tragedy. And I always thought it was just because I had to work. Yeah. And to not have that bifurcated for a moment. Is where that poem came from. Articles by Krista Tippett on Muck Rack. Tippett: this is how vitality looks like. Shes written six books of poetry, most recently, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and her volume, . Here it is again as an offering for Mothers Day in a world still and again in flux, and where the matter of raising new human beings feels as complicated as ever before. And so its giving room to have those failures be a breaking open and for someone else to stand in it and bring whatever they want to it. Its a source of a spiritual thoughtfulness that runs through this conversation with Krista. and buried, I go about my day, which isnt, ordinary, exactly, because nothing is ordinary Just the title of this, I feel is such an invitation and not the kind of invitation that was being made. big enough not to let go: chaotic track. And I want you to read it. Our lovely theme music is provided and composed by Zo Keating. So you grew up in Sonoma, California, but my sense is that its not the land of Zinfandel and Pinot Noir that immediately comes to mind now when someone says Sonoma. Come back, You should take a nap.. And you have said that you fell in love with poetry in high school. Limn: I love it. joy, foundational, that brief kinship of hold Learn more at. of the mother and the child and the father and the child So its a very special place. 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