Interviews
"Alone with the Work": A conversation with Amy E. Weldon
I really don't believe that we are going to internet our way out of this.
The Oracle Pool: An Interview
Is it possible in this world to have anything miraculous happen? Are there sacred places that still exist?
An Apprenticeship with Sorrow
When COVID-19 joined the long list of climacterics we’d been enduring—hurricanes, fires, tornadoes, floods, and unprecedented housing and employment shortages—I felt an urgency to understand the overwhelming grief, loss, and uncertainty I was experiencing.
Smallness by Smallness: An Interview with Lauren Camp
Poetry demands a visionary way to see. It lets the writer chisel into the most valuable part of the stone. None of this is easy, but that complicated thought and consideration appeals to me.
Gathered Together in the Dark, Part 5: A conversation with poet Shann Ray, continued
I try to imagine science, art, and the numinous as interrelated, like good sisters.
Gathered Together in the Dark, Part 4: A conversation with poet Shann Ray
Everyone can know and be known. Mercy tells us so.
Gathered Together in the Dark, Part 3: A conversation with artist Trinh Mai, continued
I have witnessed a healing that arises from death in the form of forgiveness.
Gathered Together in the Dark, Part 2: A conversation with artist Trinh Mai
The ability to bring thoughtform into lifeform is a characteristic of being made in God’s own image.
Creative Lives Part 2
I'm thrilled that they've allowed us to share their conversation with you in this series titled "Creative Lives". You can read part 1 here—part 2 starts with a shared love of Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon’s poetry, and the way that those works and others informed the writing lives of these two poets.
![[Interview] Luci Shaw: Adventure and Ascent](http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0570/0381/articles/LUCI1_2048x.png?v=1489006300)
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The Waking is an online literary magazine and a part of the Ruminate creative community that houses high-quality literary writing about what it’s like to be human. We are interested in short-form prose and image-text hybrid work. This art can be beautiful, it can be strange, we just ask that it feels true.