On "Skin & Sinew"

a poetic incursion with a once wild

Dec 8 • 

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November 2025

Next rounds of Committed To Heart, Committed To Memory ... January 2026

Its hard to know if the blessings are woven in with the hard things or the persistence of the present but unwished for matters are stitched into the…

Nov 25 • 

Matthew Stillman

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August 2025

Introducing: Poetry Convivium

Certainly you are likely to know the word "convivial" with the general double swinging canteen door quality of "can have a stiff drink or a great…

Aug 4 • 

Matthew Stillman

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June 2025

Elephants, Zebras, and Reclaiming Old Trails

In the excellent book ‘On Trails: An Exploration’ by Robert Moor he wonders aloud about the paths beneath our feet.

Jun 12 • 

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May 2025

Poetics of Pandiculation

new round of introductory Committed To Heart, Committed To Memory with Clinical Somatics teacher Gena Rho

May 12 • 

Matthew Stillman

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Drink Deep With Parched Ears: reconsidering a line from Robert Frost

Winning awards isn't a measure of greatness per se though it measures a specific kind of greatness in a particular arena.

May 6 • 

Matthew Stillman

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April 2025

Applause for Haleh Liza Gafori's new Rumi translation - "Water"

Kindling and air for the embers of the four chambers of a heart.

Apr 25 • 

Matthew Stillman

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Snail Surplus? Might be Duck Deficiency.

On being present to difficulties. Sometimes I just listen.

Apr 21 • 

Matthew Stillman

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March 2025

The Pearl of the "D" Sound

on Dickinson, urgency, and letting the ear into a poem

Mar 25 • 

Matthew Stillman

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February 2025

December 2024

Ambergris

The Fixative, The Mandatory Oblation, The Basenote For Beauty

Dec 10, 2024 • 

Matthew Stillman

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October 2024

New sessions of Committed To Heart, Committed To Memory coming soon

Pray you are all holding up well enough in still strange disconcerted days.

Oct 22, 2024 • 

Matthew Stillman

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