Let's start a small, but significant political revolution with poetry. When someone asks you for your money and support, first give your heartfelt ideas, feelings, and opinions about what is right and wrong with politics. If they listen and res...

Write your own special declaration to Mother Earth and to the sanctity of your own interior self, meaning your heart and imagination...

For all those who are hurting, upset, and dismayed after the election...

A Paradox After the ElectionIt is 7:27 PM, Wednesday, November 6th, and I am tired, even of hope.Or maybe it is hope, that’s grown old, and now helplessly tired of me.I long for a place of equanimity, where nothing can easil...

Could it be we do not trust some things that we should, and do trust other things that we should not?

To scapegoat. To play fast and loose with the truth and especially with blame. To add insult to injury. To ignore any and all logical and systemic connections between cause and effect. To refuse any chance for deep, just, and real solutions. Th...

To "know about" something is largely an intelectual endevor. It's helpful, but incomplete. To actually "know" something deep in our bones, we must "feel" it more fully, which invites both the head and the heart to the party. This merging of our...

The world is made of stories. You are a story. Everyone you know and love is a story. Let's not accept stories about ourselves, others, or the world that are old, tattered, and no longer work...

Does Mother Earth need a restraining order? This is one of several questions we tackle in this edition of the Dale Biron On Poetry Podcast. We also want to know the relationship between probability and possibility? Hint, living in possibility i...

Once you've extracted as much learning as you can from your past mishaps, mistakes, and misfortunes, it’s best to simply let it all go…

Courage is to "know" our heart, and to "follow" it. In times of great turmoil and difficulty, it becomes even more important to do so. As in these times...

Once we are part of this mysterious, unfathomable, undefinable, condition we call life, we are in (and within) the universal club of kindness.

Can a poem explain the power of anger? Yes, the right poem, and the right kind of anger... Righteous anger.

There will be times when you can place your body into the natural world, to walk, see, feel, hear and touch. And there will be times when you can’t. But you can still seek  healing solace. 

Might there be a poem equal to a cat video? Can a critter help cure our  sadness, even our subtle but irreversible sadness?

Here's how to read poems for optimum inspiration, joy, and impact. (Relax. Renew. Repeat...)

War is necessary, needed, and natural… Wait, is this actually so? Powerful poems can help us push up against our cultural beliefs and expectations, especially the ones that are no longer serving us.  This is one of my favorites mind and he...

Our worst grudge is the one we hold, often unwittingly, against ourselves. It's the one that does the greatest damage. Time for forgiveness...

Sometimes increasing our peace of mind becomes our highest priority. This poem may help...

How might a poem help us with difficult decisions in these dark times?

A simple poem about a beautiful, flawed, and precious thing...

New stories, powerful metaphors, and compelling images, are arriving now daily. And not a moment too soon, because the old narratives have lost virtually all of their credibility, and certainly all of their magic. It's new cultural "pickle juic...

We are social beings. We make, consume and live by the stories we share with others. Stories that help us see and feel, think and navigate the world and our place in it. Stories that eventually define what passes for what we call our common sen...

As the extraordinary teacher and public intellectual, Bayo Akomolafe once put it, “The times are urgent: Let’s slow down...” In this episode we contemplate what it would be like to start again, to start fresh, to start small and go slow...

If we really want to have greater "agency" in this world (and at the same time, joy) we're going to need our dear friends by our side. In this episode we'll look at poetry that celebrates those we call our friends.