includes poems and essays such as "The Head of Barley" by Robert Bly; "What is the Worth of the Wind River Mountains" by Gretel Ehrlich; "On the Shores of Lake Biwa" by Natalie Goldberg; "This is Who I am When No One is Looking" by Pico Iyer; "Everyone was in Love" by Galway Kinnell, "On Laughing" by Patrick Madden, "Hysterical Scientism" by Marilynne Robinson, "Storm" by Mark Strand, "Half Moon, Small Cloud" by John Updike, "What Jesus Did" by Garry Wills and many more