In this series, I read poems & passages from my favorite books.

Passages from William James

Passages from David Abram’s The Spell of the Sensuous

Fragment 198 from Book of Disquiet

Reading Allowed: from Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet (Fragment 76)

Reading Allowed: A Passage from Fernando Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet (pt 2)

Reading Allowed: Snippets from Fernando Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet

Reading Allowed: Shitou Xiqian’s “Straw Hut Song”

prose poem from Claudia Rankine’s Citizen

passage from Rainer Maria Rilke's Letter to a Young Poet

“Story” by Lydia Davis

from Octavio Paz’s “Sunstone”

James Wright’s “Sitting in a Small Screenhouse on a Summer Morning”

from Spinoza’s Ethics

Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Human Beings at Night”

Emily Dickinson’s “The Brain is wide than the Sky”

passage from Henri Bergson’s Creative Evolution

passage from Sally Kempton’s Awakening Shakti

Fernando Pessoa as Alberto Caiero’s “There’s metaphysics enough in not thinking”

passage from Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason

Russell Edson’s “A Man Who Writes”

Matthew Sherling’s “Yesterday’s Shoebox”