An episode from 10/8/24: Tonight, four years to the day after starting this podcast, I end it with a reading of Theodore Roethke’s (1908-1963) long poem, “The Rose.” I also reread the poem I shared in the very first episode, Louise Glück’s (1943-2023) “Messengers.”

Many thanks to my listeners over the past four years. You can continue find my books, notices about new publications, and daily poems from Old English till now, over at wordandsilence.com. You can always reach me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.


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4 responses

  1. I love this podcast so much! Thank you Tim! Now I can go visit the archives and see what I missed (HINT: NORSE AND CELTIC MYTHOLOGY)

    Can’t wait to see what you do next…

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  2. Goodbye Tim. It has been a lovely journey listening to you. If you start another podcast or some other form of public engagement, I look forward to it regardless of what it is about. With you it has often been a discovery of things I didn’t know I was interested in yet.

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  3. Thank you for the good words. I’d be interested to hear which episodes you liked the most. …in the meantime, there might be another book coming out soon. Thank you for listening!

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  4. Maybe there shd just be a 20-40 episode series only on the Great Myths? I hope you had to good bday Tom. Thanks for finding the podcast & being so enthusiastic for it.

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#231: The mythology of the moon Human Voices Wake Us

An episode from 6/1/26: Tonight, we delve into the significance of the moon in mythology, religion, and folklore. I read from the Taschen Book of Symbols, the Penguin Dictionary of Symbols, and Mircea Eliade’s Patterns in Comparative Religion.Finally, and most personally, I read about the history of Rosh Chodesh, the monthly Jewish holiday recognizing the New Moon. For this, I read a passage from Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz’s A Guide to Jewish Prayer.The best way to support the podcast is by leaving a review on Apple or Spotify, sharing it with others, or sending me a note on what you think. You can also order any of my books: Time and the River: From Columbine to the Invention of Fire, Notes from the Grid, To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and Bone Antler Stone. I've also edited a handful of books in the S4N Pocket Poems series. I also have a YouTube channel where I share poems and excerpts from these books, mostly as YouTube shorts.Email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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