Human Voices Wake Us

The poem says, "Human voices wake us, and we drown." But I’ve made this podcast with the belief that human voices are what we need. And so, whether from a year or three thousand years ago, whether poetry or prose, whether fiction or diary or biography, here are the best things we have ever thought, written, or said.

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Episodes (231)

Mon Aug 17th #238 - Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico
Mon Aug 10th #237 - Al Pacino remembers his childhood, and Eleanor Roosevelt finds herself
Mon Aug 3rd #236 - At home with Bach

Human Voices Wake Us

Aug 17, 2026
31½ minutes
28 MB

An episode from 8/17/26: Tonight, we look at the years of intense simplicity that the American artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) spent in New Mexico. Attached to the area from her first visit to Taos in 1929, over the next fifteen years she continued to travel and paint there. In 1949 she moved to New Mexico permanently and achieved the kind of bare-bones life, seclusion from the wider world, and level of intimacy with the natural world she had long sought. The books I read from are Laurie Lisle's biography, Portrait of an Artist, and Georgia O'Keeffe, a large book of...

Human Voices Wake Us

#238 - Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico

Human Voices Wake Us

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