Poetry, Mindfulness, and Social Engagement: Working Hand in Hand with Heart
Investing in girls’ education transforms communities, countries and the entire world. Girls’ education strengthens economies and reduces inequality. It contributes to more stable, resilient societies…
Preserving the Arts and Humanities Means Protecting the Best in Us All
“{The national} 2021 budget calls for $30 million to close out the National Endowment for the Arts and $33.4 million to shutter the National Endowment for…
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
We have been consistently honored and delighted to partner with Los Angeles’ marvelous Skirball Cultural Center on a number of ongoing projects, chief among them this…
On Beauty, Attention, and the Sacred
Beauty is an achieved state of both deep attention and self-forgetting; the self forgetting of seeing, hearing, smelling or touching that erases our separation, our…
Lost & Found: Bringing Lost Work to New Life
In terms of a magickal working — an inner visioning process, this is the portion of the work that involves cleaning up loose ends — +…
Poetry and the Senses Program at UC Berkeley’s Arts Research Center
A prime example of the work we do. We are so fortunate to have this opportunity to support Berkeley University for this ground-breaking collaborative class module….
The Space Between: On Turning to the Poetry of Jane Hirshfield
Some stories last many centuries, others only a moment. All alter over that lifetime like beach-glass, grow distant and more beautiful with salt. Yet even today,…
Standing in Light
How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a…
A Larger Yes: Poetry As A Vessel of Discovery, Mindfulness, Expansion and Engagement
“A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart…
On This Ship, You’ll Fly
What shall I give my children? who are poor, Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land, Who are my sweetest lepers, who demand No velvet…