New Podcast Announcement – “Savage Amazement”

Hello everyone! I’m excited to announce a new podcast that that artist and teacher Tom Hart and I have started. It is called Savage Amazement, where we talk about being modern guys, about living inside of creativity, longing, and caring about art and meaning.

For the moment, the podcast is being housed at Tom’s Substack, Men: An Explanation, a bunch of Tom’s essays on masculinity and how its gone awry. Those are worth reading, too. Subscribe at Substack, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and elsewhere.

Here is Tom’s introduction to the podcast, including his kind words about my old podcast, Human Voices Wake Us:

In the pandemic, I discovered the podcast, Human Voices Wake Us, by poet Tim Miller. Tim is a very kind, wise literary person with a foot in history (and often pre-history), a foot in poetry, a foot in myth, and a foot in literature. So many feet!

That podcast, saved my pandemic. It was slow, thoughtful, considered, and it offered insight and sometimes just story, that went hundreds and thousands of years into the past. The opening of the podcast says “human voices are what we need” and shockingly, in an age of so many human voices (see: social media, etc.) I came to agree.

And so after merely thanking Tim for each episode, on Celtic mythology, or his tender autobiographical episodes, or the poetry of Louise Glück or whatever, we struck up a friendship, and now here we are, we wanted to speak in public about… well being guys, I guess.

Enter this podcast.

We joke in the first moments that the podcast might be called “How to not be an incel asshole” but really we just go on to talk about what moves us deeply in this world. And at least for me, at least, how it contradicts what I sometimes feel impulsively. (I will admit to being provincial and small-minded, motivated by fear and rage, while wanting mostly to just be allowed to take in the world gently.)