Hey there. We are sharing something special with you this week. Now, I know we don't normally

listen to other podcasts, but we're making an exception. It's an episode of the podcast,

No Small Endeavor,

a show that will help you find light in these dark times. These days, our culture is marked

by political unrest, polarization, and anxiety. Beauty and Art feel like a luxury,

or even a distraction. In a special series, No Small Endeavor is asking, what if art, beauty,

and poetry are exactly what we need to face the crisis at

hand? Can poetry help us protest, pray, lament, and even hope? Host Lee C. Camp talks to poets like

Hela Liza Gafori, a poet, musician, and acclaimed translator of the Persian poet Rumi, and Padraig Otuma,

poet theologian, and host ofetry Unbound. Their conversations evoke

thoughtfulness about how to fight for beauty in the current culture and how to make it

through the fires of our time together. In this episode, Lee talks to Joy Harjo, a musician, author,

and three-term U.S. Poet Laureate. Camp and Harjo explore how poetry can act as a form of justice,

a practice of self-development,

and a tiny experiment in healing. The episode asks what it means to live a good life in an age

of crisis, climate change, technological upheaval, and cultural fracture. Poetry,

Harjo reminds us, is a way of being human, an act of authentic human flourishing even in the hardest of times.

Okay, here comes the episode. You can listen to this series and more on No Small Endeavor,

wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Lee C. Camp and this is No Small Endeavor, exploring what it means to live a good life.

Poetry, it's ceremonial language that taps on your heart and says, okay, let's pay attention

here.

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