Of Nature, Of Poetry
These poems are from Sections I, II, & III of Examen:
- How Long Have You Been a Poet? by Susan Sink | Read by Yvonne Murphy
- When were you happiest in your body?, by Susan Sink | Read by Yvonne Murphy
- When were you happiest in your body? (II), by Susan Sink | Read by Yvonne Murphy
- What was the darkest night?, by Susan Sink | Read by Mike Branch
- What was the brightest day?, by Susan Sink | Read by Eryn Branch
- Prairie, Early Spring, by Susan Sink | Read by Constance Carlson
- The Poet Lectures Us on Dragonflies, by Susan Sink | Read by Yvonne Murphy
- Bottle Gentian, by Susan Sink | Read by April Lindner
- Daylight Savings Time, by Susan Sink | Read by Martha Greenwald
- The Beautiful Dead, by Susan Sink | Read by Tom Montgomery Fate
- How to Read Mary Oliver’s Poetry, by Susan Sink | Read by April Lindner
- Middlemarch, by Susan Sink | Read by Richard Grinker
- Park Forest, by Susan Sink | Read by Constance Carlson
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I was a much better poet all those years before my incarnation. Out there, spinning with the spheres, singing our songs, shining our light.
-from “How Long Have You Been a Poet?”