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Our 2025 Book Titles and Schedule #theCRPblog
Dear Friend, Last week, I put up a poll on Instagram asking if folks would prefer to know all the titles for the whole year or receive a slow trickle of titles closer to each month. The response was unanimous: you want to know the full schedule now! Fortunately, I planned well ahead, this time,…
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Let the World Soften You with Its Touching
Dear Friend, What if we really could “write poems and save the planet,” as poet laureate Ada Limón suggests in her introduction to this beautiful collection? What if we could read poems and save ourselves? As I neared the end of You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, I began to feel the urge…
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You Are Here in the Natural World
Dear Friend, It will be no surprise to anyone paying attention that I didn’t get far with my reflections on Hewitt’s All Down Darkness Wide. I want to apologize for missing some of those updates, but to be honest, I finished the book much, much sooner than expected and got so caught up in the…
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Shouting into the Hollow Trunk of the World
Dear Friend, Sometimes I’ve wondered about memoir as a genre. Why do we read a segment of some individuals’ stories? And who decides to share theirs? Isn’t that, well, egotistical? But then I step into a memoir whose story is more than the individual’s and whose prose is poetry, and I blush at the questions…
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All Down Darkness Wide
Dear Friend, Thank you for a strange and somewhat unsettling, but also educational, read through Ethan Mollick’s Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, last month. We now turn our attention to Seán Hewitt’s memoir, All Down Darkness Wide, which I have been looking forward to reading since its pre-release announcement. Our November 2024 Reading Selection…
Contemplative Reading Project 