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Caroline Harvey on Poetry, Performance, Gender, and Activism

August 10, 2016

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0:58:55

Caroline Harvey is an accomplished poet and educator whose work explores ideas of the sacred and the profane.

Nominated for the 2013 Best Poets Award and a 2012 Pushcart Prize, she has shared stages and classrooms with Alicia Keys, Livingston Taylor, Melissa Ferrick, Donna De Lory, and Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), and is dedicated to conscious evolution and intelligent rebellion.

The conversation with host Sam Stern covers gender politics, teaching, authenticity, her love for the Grateful Dead, and how to avoid a predictable poetic cadence. Caroline also shares several of her fantastic new poems.

Music for this episode is by Esalen's own Sierra Snyder, who records under the moniker of See Seer. The track is There Will Be Music Despite Everything.

Look for upcoming workshops with Caroline Harvey.

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Caroline Harvey on Poetry, Performance, Gender, and Activism
August 10, 2016
0:58:55

Caroline Harvey is an accomplished poet and educator whose work explores ideas of the sacred and the profane.

Nominated for the 2013 Best Poets Award and a 2012 Pushcart Prize, she has shared stages and classrooms with Alicia Keys, Livingston Taylor, Melissa Ferrick, Donna De Lory, and Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), and is dedicated to conscious evolution and intelligent rebellion.

The conversation with host Sam Stern covers gender politics, teaching, authenticity, her love for the Grateful Dead, and how to avoid a predictable poetic cadence. Caroline also shares several of her fantastic new poems.

Music for this episode is by Esalen's own Sierra Snyder, who records under the moniker of See Seer. The track is There Will Be Music Despite Everything.

Look for upcoming workshops with Caroline Harvey.

Read the transcript

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