Joy Harjo, the 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate and member of the Muscogee Nation, is the author of ten books of poetry, several plays, children’s books, two memoirs, and seven music albums. Her honors include Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the Ruth Lily Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Tulsa Artist Fellowship. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, and is the inaugural Artist-in-Residence for the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she lives.

Robin Wall Kimmerer | Becoming Earth: Experimental Theology

In this moving personal essay, Robin Wall Kimmerer explores the rich afterlife of a fallen cedar, contemplating what its gradual return to the soil means for the forest and all who walk among the trees.

A Return to Wholeness: Storytelling as a Healing Art | Rachel Naomi Remen

This podcast episode features doctor and healer Rachel Naomi Remen, who has cultivated a new generation of doctors practicing whole-person medicine, with an unlikely message: Bless others out loud. The wholeness of the world is restored one heart at a time.