Favorite Poetry Books:

Emily Dickinson: "Complete Poems," (edited by Thomas H. Johnson)

Kabir: "The Kabir Book," (versions by Robert Bly)

Thomas Merton: "Selected Poems," (edited by Mark van Doren)

Pablo Neruda: "The Captain's Verses," (translated by Donald D. Walsh)

Pablo Neruda: "The Book of Questions," (translated by William O'Daly)

Sharon Olds: "The Dead and The Living"

Wilfred Owen: "Collected Poems," (edited by Cecil Day Lewis)

Dan Pagis: "Variable Directions," (translated by Stephen Mitchell)

Francis Ponge: "The Voice of Things," (translated by Beth Archer)

Rainer Maria Rilke: "Selected Poetry," (translated by Stephen Mitchell)

Rainer Maria Rilke: "The Book of Hours," (translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy)

Jelaluddin Rumi: "The Essential Rumi," (translated by Coleman Barks and John Moyne)

Jelaluddin Rumi: "Night and Sleep," (translated by Coleman Barks and Robert Bly)

Mark Strand: "Reasons for Moving/Darker"

Rabindranath Tagore: "Fireflies"

David Whyte: "The House of Belonging"

 

Favorite Plays:

Brian Friel: "Aristocrats"

Henrik Ibsen: "Peer Gynt"

Terrence McNally: "Frankie and Johnny in The Clair de Lune"

Edmond Rostand: "Cyrano de Bergerac"

William Shakespeare: "Hamlet"

William Shakespeare: "Much Ado About Nothing"

William Shakespeare: "Richard III"

Tom Stoppard: "Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"

Thornton Wilder: "Our Town"

Tennessee Williams: "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof"

 

Influential Books:

Pema Chodron: "When Things Fall Apart"

Natalie Goldberg: "Long Quiet Highway"

Thich Nhat Hanh: "The Heart of Understanding"

Etty Hillesum: "An Interrupted Life"

Harold Kushner: "When Bad Things Happen To Good People"

Alice Miller: "The Drama of The Gifted Child"

Stephen Mitchell (translator): "The Gospel According to Jesus"

John Muir: "Wilderness Essays"

Joseph Niehardt: "Black Elk Speaks"

Elaine Pagels: "The Gnostic Gospels"

Brenda Ueland: "If You Want To Write"

 

Favorite Links and Websites:

Astronomy:

Astronomy Picture of the Day: Astronomical Images and Astronomical History Images posted daily.

Hubble Space Telescope: Images from the Hubble Space Telescope posted monthly.

Earth At Night: An image of Earth from the International Space Station at night.

National Optical Astronomy Observatory: The gallery includes pictures taken with the facilities of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, and also pictures of their telescopes, instruments and history.

NASA: Kennedy Space Center This link will show information about the latest Space Shuttle missions.

NASA: Earth Observatory: This web page includes a gallery of photographs of Earth taken from Space.

NASA: Visible Earth: A gallery of images from the Terra Satellite.

NASA: Mars 2001 Odyssey: This web page includes a gallery of photographs of the Mars Global Surveyor Mission

Cetaceans:

Whales On The Net: Includes a wonderful gallery of cetacean photographs and links.

Movies:

Internet Movie Database

Music:

Indiana University Music Library: A searchable online resource for information about classical music, including composer links.

Women In Music: An online resource for information about women classical music composers.

San Francisco Symphony

Opera:

Metropolitan Opera: Including links to other opera websites.

Opera Libretto Homepage: An online resource for commonly performed opera libretti.

Opera News Online: The opera magazine online.

Opera Glass: An online resource of operas and their composers.

San Francisco Opera

Shakespeare:

Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Stratford Festival of Canada

Oxford Shakespeare: An online searchable Shakespearean quote database.

Writing:

Websters Dictionary and Thesaurus

Roget's Thesaurus

Bartleby's: An online searchable resource for text of quotes, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and references.

 

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