Poems for the Speed of Life

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• S5, E6: "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace" by Richard Brautigan

  January 31, 2026 · 8 min

  Richard Brautigan was born in Tacoma, Washington in 1935 and died in 1984. He had an unhappy childhood marked by poverty, and in his teens was committed to Oregon State Hospital where he received electroshock therapy. Moving to San…

• S5, E5: "Blessings" by Francis Harvey

  December 20, 2025 · 7 min

  This is the fifth episode of the Nature, Wilderness and Wildness series of the podcast. Francis Harvey was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in 1925 and died in 2014 at the age of 89. Though born in Northern Ireland, he lived most of…

• S5, E4: "breaklight" by Lucille Clifton

  December 16, 2025 · 9 min

  This is the fourth episode of the Nature, Wilderness and Wildness series of the podcast. Lucille Clifton was born in 1936 in Depew, New York, and died in 2010. She served as Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1979 to 1985, was twice a finalist…

• S5, E3: "Instructions on Not Giving Up" by Ada Limón

  November 30, 2025 · 9 min

  This is the third episode of the Nature, Wilderness and Wildness series of the podcast. Ada Limón was born in California in 1976 and was the U.S. Poet Laureate from 2022 until 2025. She is one of the most notable and noteworthy voices in…

• S5, E2: "Death of a Naturalist" by Seamus Heaney

  November 20, 2025 · 11 min

  This is the second episode of the Nature, Wilderness and Wildness series of the podcast. Seamus Heaney, who died in 2013, was one of Ireland's most celebrated and most loved poets, and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in…

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