Naming the world with Kelli Russell Agodon's poem "The Naming of Things."

Warming God's hands with our fire in Daniel B. Summerhill's poem.

Eric Kocher's re-entry into the world after a red-eye flight wonderfully disorients in his poem "Red Eye Home."

Emily gives us what-for in this poem by Betsy Sholl. Are you listening?

Love and loss and what is left behind beautifully detailed in this poem by Jordan Smith.

Clare Goulet gets down low to hear what wisdom this lichen can impart.

Reality check on climate change in this short poem by Heather Sellers.

Love of country under scrutiny in my poem "Pro Patria."

Details and attention weave together this disparate poem's lines: "Evidence of Tenderness" by Lauren Camp.

The hazards and dull horror of war and John Balaban's vivid "The Guard at the Bin Thuy Bridge."

Small subversions and what poetry can do, seen at work in "Perserving an Ecosystem" by Christina Olivares.

Counting blessings, however mixed, under consideration and this Jane Hirshfield poem: "Counting, This New Year's Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me."

All things connected in this Li-Young Lee poem, "One Heart."

Remembering and misremembering and an old poem: Thomas Bailey Aldrich, "Memory."

Star-gazing with Wordsworth, and thinking about the notorious denizens of the planet Earth.

Two poems on faith and doubt and the small voice inside.

"Burning Box Braid on East & 94th, Tulsa, Oklahoma" by Kweku Abimbola explores the maintenance of old traditions in new lands, holding the "us" amid the "other," but understanding too that we are all "other" and "us" as well.

Reading "Vesper Sparrows" by Deborah Digges and thinking about humanity.

Going along to get along, and Anne Carson's short-short "Getaway" considered in this podcast.

Gerard Manley Hopkins and reveling in the death of some things and the birth of others in his poem "That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection."

Lost on a byway in this quirky poem by Jackie Craven.

Tomas Transtromer's "Kort Paus I Orgelkonserten," translated by Patty Crane, and memory and experience considered in this podcast.

Patrick Rosal's prayer and meditation on home and hope, grief and ongoing.

Loving the world and turn of the century French poet Anna de Noailles's poem "L'impreinte" in my translation.