The Whimsy Farm Podcast
Carolyn Crane speaks with good people doing good things for social and environmental justice issues.
The Whimsy Farm Podcast
Episode Twenty-Four: Poetry Sustains with Maryam Barrie
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Celebrating National Poetry Month and Earth Day: Poetry Sustains with Maryam Barrie
Show Notes for Poetry Sustains 4/15/26
Maryam and I read and discuss the following poems:
“A Short Story of Falling” by Alice Oswald
“Ichthysaur Speaks: Notes from the Benthos” by Kyle E Miller/An excerpt from his novel The Idiot’s Garden
“Trying Hard Not to Become a Nature Poet” by W. Joe Hoppe
“Exhausting Weather” by Maryam Barrie
“Between” by J.C. (Chris) Olander
“A Litany for Survival” by Audre Lorde
“A Shadow Under the Boughs” by Maryam Barrie
From “The Cure of Troy” by Seamus Heaney
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