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The Rose Compass — 88 episodes

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1

"Anorexic": a poem by Eavan Boland

2

Wallace Stevens meets Leon Bridges through me, over coffee.

3

Polonius to His Son

4

"The Death of Marilyn Monroe," a poem by Sharon Olds.

5

Ode to Black History: Past, Present and Future

6

"Cinderella," a Poetic Retelling by Anne Sexton

7

I'm Too Hot 🔥 and it is April

8

Emily Dickinson Rises Again (with Erica Jong)

9

"Moreover" by Jack Gilbert

10

"Music Swims Back to Me" by Anne Sexton

11

Love and Money

12

"The Snow Man," by Wallace Stevens

13

Short Story, "Wampum" by Samantha Hunt

14

Reading Keats in 2005

15

Poem: Sharon Olds, "The Race"

16

Humpty Dumpty's Life

17

Which Side Are You On?

18

Women's Drum Circle

19

Thoughts at Mademoiselle Cafe, Paris

20

"Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou

21

Standing Up and Going Home

22

Something I Pray You Will Never Forget

23

"I Shall Paint My Nails Red" by Carol Satyamurti

24

"A lamp on a stand."

25

A reading of "Peter Quince at the Clavier" by Wallace Stevens

26

A reading of "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop

27

Women, Fiction, Money: Thoughts from Virginia Woolf

28

Lady Macbeth Grows a Conscience

29

"Speak to Us of Children" from The Prophet

30

"All I Wanna Do"

31

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty."

32

"The Rich and the Kingdom of God"

33

"The Mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks

34

"The Emperor of Ice Cream" by Wallace Stevens

35

"What Work Is," by Philip Levine

36

"Homage to My Hips" by Lucille Clifton

37

"Becoming" by Titilope Sonuga

38

"I Have Been Her Kind" by Anne Sexton

39

"The Sun Rising" by John Donne

40

A message on Giving, from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet

41

"Ain't I a Woman?" by Sojourner Truth

42

A Reading of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"

43

The Wise vs. the Wicked

44

"Divorce, Thy Name Is Woman"

45

Your Body Is Your Own

46

How do you know the truth from a lie?

47

The Thunder, Perfect Mind

48

Reading of "Cathedral" from Raymond Carver

49

"Medusa" by Sylvia Plath

50

Reading of "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver (poem)

51

A reading of Letter One from Letters to a Young Poet, from Rainer Maria Rilke

52

A reading of "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning

53

John's Head on a Plate (poem)

54

"This Is How We Disappear" by Titilope Sonuga

55

"Jesus Meets Pilate"

56

A reading of "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"

57

Reading of "The Woman Is Not Your Mother"

58

Letters to a Young Woman, Lessons on Life and Love, from Paris (Letters 1 &2)

59

A reading of "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath

60

Rainer Maria Rilke listens to Stevie Nicks

61

John 19:25, The Marys (an original poem)

62

On the road listening to Prince

63

A reading of "Lady Lazarus" by Sylvia Plath

64

Reading of the poem, "What the Living Do"

65

Pretty Good Year in a Woman's Wolf Body

66

A Writer and Filmmaker Find Refuge in Paris

67

The Glory of the Dark

68

When I grow up I want to be like...

69

I am a heart (short poem)

70

What are people doing secretly at night?

71

A reading of the poem, "The Journey" by Mary Oliver

72

A reading of "The Blessed Damozel"

73

Humility, audacity, and the meaning of letting go

74

Shamanic Ritual Recording: My Womb, Carrier of the Soul

75

Love has arrived: a letter

76

Self Reiki Meditation (for women and men)

77

God and Money: A conversation between equals

78

"Me and a Gun," a Song for the Abused

79

"Me and a Tape," Oral Storytelling

80

Eve, the Daughter of Rebels: One letter to a child

81

God and Money: What Are Jesus's Teachings about Money?

82

Understanding the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine

83

Jana Rose Book Launch, Letters to a Young Woman, from Paris

84

Poetry Reading, "When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes"

85

Reading of short story, "Otherworld"

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86

Communicating about Sex in Relationships

87

Men and Mental Health

88

Practical Tips for Financial Success in 2020