writing resources

Books of and About Poetry:

-Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems

-Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What is Sacred by Mark Nepo

-Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression by Mark Nepo

-Sacred Sounds: Magic & Healing Through Words & Music by Ted Andrews

-The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns by Matty Weingast

-Space Between Stones: Poetry and Practices for Connecting with Nature, Spirit, and Creativity by Kai Siedenburg

-A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver

-Devotions by Mary Oliver

-To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings by John O’Donohue

-Words Under Words: Selected Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye

-The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry

Books on Writing as a Healing Practice

-Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives by Louise DeSalvo

-Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words by Kim Rosen

-Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy

-Writing Poetry to Save Your Life: How to Find the Courage to Tell Your Stories by Maria Mazziotti Gillan

-These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson by Martha Ackmann

-A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry by Mary Oliver

-Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg

-How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice by Pat Schneider

-Writing Alone and With Others by Pat Scheider

-Finding What You Didn’t Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity Through Poem-Making by John Fox

-poemcrazy: freeing your life with words by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge

-Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making by John Fox

-Wild Words: Rituals, Routines, Rhythms for Braving the Writer’s Path by Nicole Gulotta

-Catching the Light: Why I Write by Joy Harjo

-The Way of the Fearless Writer: Ancient Eastern Wisdom for a Flourishing Writing Life by Beth Kempton

Interviews with Writers I Love

-“Belonging Creates and Undoes Us,”a conversation between poet, Pádraig Ó Tuama and Krista Tippett on the On Being Podcast

-“So let us pick up the stones over which we stumble, friends, and build altars”: a conversation with poet, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Krista Tippett and Marilyn Nelson on the On Being Podcast

-"The Inner Landscape of Beauty,”a conversation between the late poet, John O’Donohue and Krista Tippett on the On Being Podcast

- ”Beauty is an Edge of Becoming,” a conversation between the late poet, John O’Donohue and Krista Tippett on the On Being Podcast

-”The Whole of Time,” a conversation between poet, Joy Harjo and Krista Tippett on the On Being Podcast

-"Before You Know Kindess as the Deepest Thing Inside,” a conversation between poet, Naomi Shihab Nye and Krista Tippett on the On Being Podcast

-”What a World You’ve Got Inside of You,” a conversation between Krista Tippett and Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows about translating Rainer Maria Rilke’s book, Letters to a Young Poet on the On Being podcast