Louise Erdich

Listen to the Stones

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October 8, 2026

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~~~~~~~~~~~ Listen to the Stones ~~~~~~~~~~~ When I began to listen to poetry, it’s when I began to listen to...

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- September 2026 Readings
- Sleeping in the Forest - A Poem by Mary Oliver
- The Sunflowers
- Grateful for Wendell Berry
- Mesa Verde
- Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?
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- Recovery
- The Heart of Herakles
- Hurricane
- The Inward Flavor of the Infinite
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- The One That Sings
- I Could Pull This Beauty Inside Me
- i take my glasses off
- Each Moment the Only Moment, Ordinary Beautiful, Night Blossoms
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- The Riverside Meadow, the Blue Lake, The Sweetness
- I AND NOT-I
- Silence
- Perspective
- A Blessing Poem
- Beyond Cartography
- Sabbaths - VII
- It's the Words That Sing, They Soar and Descend
- The Ordinary Miracles Begin
- I Said to My Soul, Be Still
- Each Word Says It Is Love
- In Otter Words - Circle the Holy Parts
- Give Us Courage
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- Listen
- Finding Home
- Do You Know How Many Beautiful Things Can Be Seen in a Single Second?
- SAY I AM YOU - Rumi and Coleman Barks
- February 2026 Readings
- An Elastic Web of Light - Far Above the Earth, and Closer Than Close
- A Telegram from the Heart in Exile
- Our Real Condition - A Few Notes from Agnes Martin
- To Paint the Light Itself - Claude Monet and May Sarton
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- Triumph of Being
- Spirit Horses and A Hundred Names of Love
- Treat Each Other With Great Tenderness
- Three Poems for the New Year
- Vast
- The Tree in Winter
- The Hardest Blessing
- Love After Love
- Blessing for the Senses
- Starlings in Winter
- Take Refuge
- Meeting Your Death
- How the Worst Day of My Life Became the Best
- October 2025 Readings
- Common Ground
- Indelible, Miraculous
- Who Knows What Is Going On
- For Light
- September 2025 Readings
- The Inner Sky, The Inner Light
- Searching for the City of Love
- Prayers
- This Moment, This Love
- Getting Out
- August 2025 Readings
- You, Darkness
- Last Night as I Was Sleeping / Anoche Cuando Dormía
- It Happens
- Say I Am You
- July 2025 Readings
- Unfinished Prayers
- Ministry / Love's Austere and Lonely Offices
- A Blessing for Presence
- Is This the Path of Love
- A Love Letter
- June 2025 Readings
- Roots
- Agog
- Who You Really Are
- Unsayable and Vast
- May 2025 Readings
- Love Is Not the Last Room
- In Praise of Singers
- Walking from Honduras
- Written on the Wall (All Things Sing You)
- April 2025 Readings
- Awake in a House Wrapped in Sleep
- For Those Who Have Far to Travel
- Bald Eagle
- Just Before Dawn
- The Forest
- March 2025 Readings
- Dazzle of Day
- How Each Day Is a Holy Place
- All My Body Calls
- What the River Says, I Say
- February 2025 Readings
- I Need the Sea
- I Love You
- From the Mountain
- The Seven of Pentacles
- January 2025 Readings
- When I Am Among the Trees
- Allegro
- Come With Us
- The Sea
- The Flame That Burns Forever
- Solstice
- Eternity
- Clarity
- The Avowal
- November 2024 Readings
- The Good News
- What I Must Tell Myself
- Shoulders
- How Long Does It Take to Make the Woods?
- October 2024 Readings
- Turning
- Table
- Facing the Moon, There Is No End
- My Life Is Not This Steeply Sloping Hour
- September 2024 Readings
- Who Understands Me But Me
- Behind All Words, the Unsayable Stands
- Expect the Unexpected
- The Bottom Is Pebbly With Stars
- August 2024 Readings
- Buddha in Glory
- Hold Everything Dear
- Be Ahead of All Parting
- Quiet
- July 2024 Readings
- oh what is that beautiful thing that just happened?
- Sweetness, Always
- Where We Fail, Catch Hold Again, and Climb
- Our Courageous Life
- Listen
- June 2024 Readings
- Blessings
- Here, Always Here
- Lakol Wicoun
- My Secret Heart
- May 2024 Readings
- Unison Benediction
- Romanesque Arches
- Having Come This Far
- Lantern - Some Evening
- When Poetry Came to Me
- April 2024 Readings
- Passover Remembered
- Late Feast
- Magic
- I Have Roads in Me
- The Beginning of Real Time
- March 2024 Readings
- There Is No Word for Goodbye
- An Infinite Connection
- An Abyss of Light
- Sunset
- February 2024 Readings
- We Grow Accustomed to the Dark
- The Unbroken
- Kindness
- Quite Beautiful Myself
- January 2024 Readings
- The Second Music
- In the Point of Rest
- It Makes Sense to Me Now
- Diamonds Are Borne
- Water's Prayer - A little rain, a little snow, love, trust, and beauty
- December 2023 Readings
- Under Ideal Conditions
- For When People Ask
- Blessing for the Place Between
- The Astonishing Reality of Things
- November 2023 Readings
- What Do Poems Do? And Is That Your Real Nose? And The Best Poem Ever.
- Would You Bow?
- A Clear Midnight
- At the Shore of Silence
- Passing Through a Doorway
- Continue
- October 2023 Readings
- The Flute of Interior Time
- To Go Into a Forest Alone
- Why I Stay Up Late
- September 2023 Readings
- There But for the Grace
- Blessing the Way
- A Heart Is Given
- The Glass Between
- August 2023 Readings
- What Time Is It? It Is By Every Star
- Blessing the Body
- Beannacht / Blessing
- Coming Home to Yourself
- This Ball in My Pocket, Can You See How Priceless It Is?
- July 2023 Readings
- We Don't Know
- Some Say You're Lucky
- You Are That Freshness - Praise to the Emptiness
- This Embodied Life - The Spirit Likes to Dress Up (with a poem by Mary Oliver)
- The Fall
- June 2023 Readings
- Impermanence
- Asymmetry Moves the World
- To Look at Any Thing
- May 2023 Readings
- Inside This Clay Jug
- Demonstrations
- Building Your Ship
- The Moon Shows the Way
- I Would Like to Describe
- April 2023 Readings
- Who Says Words With My Mouth
- Where Eternity Flows
- Important
- View from a Mountain
- March 2023 Readings
- Primary Wonder
- Rest Note
- Happy
- February 2023 Readings
- In Gratitude
- Sing, Sing, Sing
- The Question
- A Note from Vincent van Gogh
- January 2023 Readings
- An Inner Richness
- Celebrating Lunar New Year
- Blessing at the Burning Bush
- No Expectations, No Plans
- Two Poems for the New Year
- December 2022 Readings
- When I Am Among the Trees
- Buoyancy
- Underwater Excavation
- The Opening of Eyes
- November 2022 Readings
- Presiding Over an Eclipse
- Leap Before You Look
- A Dark Wine So Potent
- After Robert Bly's "The Third Body"
- Bursts of Kindness and Compassion
- Leave Childhood
- September 2022 Readings
- I Live Now in a Sky-House
- Much to Be Learned from a Rainstorm
- Nobodies and Somebodies: "Dishwashers and Other Forgotten Angels" by Albert Huffstickler
- Eagle Poem
- August 2022 Readings
- Remember
- Readings from Bursts of Light and Fire Pop-Up Spiritual Poetry Meetup, July 30, 2022
- The Flowers Are Leaning In
- Bursts of Light and Fire
- July 2022 Readings
- Light and Fire
- Beloved Is Where We Begin
- The Platform of Tai Chi
- The Widening Sky
- June 2022 Readings
- Are You Omnipresent?
- The Whole Existence Consists of Light
- Sweet Is the Oneness
- Packing Up for Paradise
- May 2022 Readings
- Laundromat
- It Won’t Be the Way You Think
- Bursts of Zen and Tao
- April 2022 Readings
- Two Poems by Lynn Ungar
- Bursts of Resilience
- The Winged Energy of Delight
- The Birds Keep Saying I Love You
- March 2022 Readings
- What They Did Yesterday Afternoon
- Two Poems by Rumi
- Drink as Deep as You Can
- February 2022 Readings
- The Visit of Love
- Unending Love
- Readings from Special Thich Nhat Hanh Spiritual Poetry Meetup January 29, 2022
- Let Us Meet at the True Source
- Be Melting Snow
- January 2022 Readings
- The Middle Way, Wherever We Are
- The Lost Poem
- Giving Life to All Life
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- This Rain
- I Dreamed I Lived in Austin
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- Takuhatsu - A Poem by Ryokan
- The Sacred Mystery
- Song of a Man Who Has Come Through
- Things I Didn't Know I Loved
- October 2021 Readings
- The Way It Is
- Sunday Morning
- September 2021 Readings
- The Cure
- Behind the Lines: The Portal of Poetry
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- One Whisper of The Beloved
- The Ground at Our Feet
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- Too Many Names
- Thanks
- Cargo
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- Only When I Am Quiet and Do Not Speak
- When You See Water
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