April 11, 2024
Here is a list of books, podcasts, and texts of all kinds that are related to this year’s theme or story. Feel free to take them as inspiration before this year’s gathering. Sleeping with the Dictionary Harryette Mullen The Triggering Town Richard Hugo Subcultural Sounds: Micromusics of the West Mark Slobin Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude […]
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March 18, 2023
Here is a list of books, podcasts, and texts of all kinds that are related to this year’s theme or story. Feel free to take them as inspiration before this year’s gathering. The Mabinogion Translator: Jeffrey Gantz The Mabinogion Translator: Sioned Davies Podcast: Jay’s recordings of stories from the Welsh Mabinogion Jay Leeming To a […]
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March 11, 2022
Book Title Author Wisdom of the Mythtellers Sean Kane The Epic of Gilgamesh Translator: N.K. Sandars The Night Abraham Called to the Stars Robert Bly The Soul Is Here for Its Own Joy Edited by Robert Bly Bonfire Opera Danusha Laméris The Moons of August Danusha Laméris Poems I Brought Down from the Mountain Humberto […]
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February 12, 2021
Some of us are reading Braiding Sweetgrass and some of us are reading My Grandmother’s Hands and some of us are re-reading Women Who Run With the Wolves and many of us are reading poetry from many voices. Here is a brief collection of works leaving impressions. But what we most want to know is—what […]
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December 9, 2019
Trinity Sight Jennifer Givhan The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller Circe Madeline Miller Rosa’s Einstein Jennifer Givhan Landscape With Headless Mama Jennifer Givhan Protection Spell Jennifer Givhan Girl With Death Mask Jennifer Givhan Iron John: A Book About Men Robert Bly The Night Wages Martin Shaw Wolf Milk Martin Shaw Courting the Wild Twin (forthcoming […]
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March 23, 2019
The Pursuit of Dermot and Grainne An Irish story. A telling by Martin Shaw. Finn alone as dawn comes. Not the visionary, prophet, warrior, but Finn as bleak widow, of spasmed back, fragile knee, grey locks. Barely a stretch of flesh not vivid with scars. Older. Finn alone, as he always was, even in the […]
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March 13, 2019
Dear friends, As soon as March lopes in, your faces start to get a little clearer, your dearness more acute. One more push into spring and will be entering the marvellous back at Camp Kieve for another year. Amazing. I wanted you to know my movements will be a little front ended this time. You’ll […]
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January 15, 2019
Baba Yaga: The Ambiguous Mother and Witch of the Russian Folktale Andreas Johns Invoking Ireland John Moriarty Over Nine Waves Marie Heaney The Dream and the Underworld James Hillman The Night Wages(February 2019) Martin Shaw Courting the Dawn: Poems of Lorca (April 2019) Trans Martin Shaw and Stephan Harding Technicians of the Sacred Jerome Rothenberg […]
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March 8, 2018
The Huntress An Inuit story. A telling by Martin Shaw. There was a woman who dreamt of the sea. Back when there was a village called Tikeraq, there lived a man and a woman. But it’s not really their story I’m telling. It’s their daughter’s story I’m telling. She was a huntress, famed for both her […]
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