A Bard of the Bay
Joanna Harcourt-Smith interview featuring Ron Lampi, philosopher-astrologer-poet-writer and performance artist. Ron has a large body of poetic work that is only now becoming available. He sees himself...
View ArticleThe Struggle for Imagination
Anne Waldman is a poet and teacher, and with Allen Ginsberg co-founded of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado in 1974. She was featured along with...
View Article??? the Unacceptable
American-born photographer and author, Margaret Randall, returning to the United States in 1984 after living in Central America, was ordered deported under the Walter McCarran Act. Because of opinions...
View ArticleWorld on Life
Michael Brownstein is a poet, teacher and the author of three novels: Country Cousins, Self-Reliance, and The Touch. As a result of his involvement in the anti-globalization movement he wrote World on...
View ArticleA Poet Teaches the Writer’s Life
Miriam Sagan is the author of over twenty books, including a memoir, Searching for a Mustard Seed : A Young Widow’s Unconventional Story (Winner best Memoir from Independent Publishers, 2004). Her...
View ArticleA Quiet Writing Revolution
Natalie Goldberg is the author of Writing Down The Bones: Freeing The Writer Within (1986), which broke open the world of creativity and started a revolution in the way we practice writing in this...
View ArticleThe Sacredness of the Earth
Leslie M. Browning is a poet,writer, and longtime student of Religion, Spirituality, Nature, Language and Philosophy as such these themes permeate her work. Raised a Catholic, she studied both the...
View ArticleFalling In Love With The Wild
Dr. Jamie K. Reaser is a practitioner and teacher of ecopsychology, nature-based spirituality, and various approaches to expanding human consciousness, as well as a conservation ecologist, poet,...
View ArticleFrom Despair to Ecological Empowerment
John Seed is founder and director of the Rainforest Information Centre in Australia. www.rainforestinfo.org.au Since 1979 he has been involved in the direct actions which have resulted in the...
View ArticleBuddhism: A Changing, Living Organism
This is a new episode in our monthly podcast series, Upaya Conversations, a collaboration with Upaya Zen Center. Stephen Batchelor is a contemporary Buddhist teacher and writer, best known for his...
View ArticleThe Light-giving Language/El Lenguaje Que Da Luz
Américo Yábar is a poet, writer, founder of the poetic movement Salk’a (free energy, non-domesticated) that connects all the beings of the Pachamama and the infinite spaces of the cosmos. For many...
View ArticleWhat Cannot Be Conveyed
Henry Shukman is an English poet and writer. His first poetry collection, “In Dr No’s Garden” won the Jerwood Aldeburgh Poetry Prize. His book was also the Book of the Year in The Times and The...
View ArticleRemembering Together
Åsmund Seip is a poet, artist and love activist, burning for a collective, beautiful remembering of who we are – and where we are. Åsmund is the author of the book “100 Days of Love”, and he is...
View ArticleAlive in Beauty
In this week’s episode, Melissa La Flamme speaks with Joanna about: art as a doorway to Spirit; wilderness rapture; soul rewilding: becoming who you are; Nature needs us now; the alchemy of grief; a...
View ArticleThe Song That Dances Us
In this week’s episode, Bayo Akomolafe speaks with Joanna about: the pilgrimage to the wildness of things; looking for buried possibilities, beyond the single story of development; connected to Gaia in...
View ArticleExperiencing Life Without Mediation
In this week’s episode, Ken Cohen speaks with Joanna about Daoism: more than philosophy and religion:origins and influences, key figures, branches, sacred places; a timeless tradition relevant for our...
View ArticleSpoken word with Joanna
A call for much needed support and a Spoken word gift from Joanna Harcourt-Smith: “Falling in the Middle of Things”. Please click on the green “Donate” button on the right side of our homepage. We’ll...
View ArticleThe Splendor of Every Breath
In this week’s episode, William Searle speaks with Joanna about: a personal ecology; the body-Earth relationship; a pilgrimage to sacred mountains in Japan; the ineffable, here and now; waking up...
View ArticleCitizens of the Sacred Earth
In this episode poet Michael Brownstein speaks with Joanna about his newest book, “Let’s Burn the Flags of All Nations”: finding our way back to the sacredness of living on Earth; “Through the Looking...
View ArticleOriginal Knowing
Lyla June Johnston speaks with Joanna about: remembering our common indigenousity; forgiveness, the way home; healing the violence in Western cultures by grieving the ancestral pain; stopping the...
View ArticleSpiritual Democracy
Steven Herrmann speaks with Joanna about: William Everson and the poet as a medicine person; Whitman and being in love with the Earth; an arch of spiritual freedom, from William James to the sixties;...
View ArticleThe Ecstasy of Nature
Steven Herrmann speaks with Joanna about: an American poet shoulder to shoulder with Walt Whitman; a traiblazer of women’s rights; the importance of listening to our own authentic voice; the integrity...
View ArticleRadical Authenticity
Leslie M Browning speaks with Joanna about: learning to move forward with traumatic experiences; healing is a journey; making meaning out of the loss; connected in vulnerability; the healing magic and...
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