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<p>Foreword by Madeleine K. Albright xv</p> <p>A Note to Our Readers by Sam M. Intrator and Megan Scribner xix</p> <p>Introduction by Parker J. Palmer xxv</p> <p><b>Called 1</b></p> <p>Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses"<br />reflection by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., president, Waterkeeper Alliance 2</p> <p>Emily Dickinson's "'Hope' is the thing with feathers" [Excerpt]<br />reflection by Nicole Gagnon, college student leader 6</p> <p>Langston Hughes's "Madam's Calling Card"<br />reflection by Kyle Dodson, high school principal 8</p> <p>William Stafford's "The Way It Is"<br />reflection by Michael Intrator, managing director, emissions trading company 10</p> <p>William Carlos Williams's "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [Excerpt]<br />reflection by Peter S. Temes, president, ILO Institute 12</p> <p>Reinhold Niebuhr's "The Irony of American History" [Excerpt]<br />reflection by Rosemary Jordano Shore, founder, ChildrenFirst 14</p> <p>William Blake's "Songs of Innocence" [Excerpt]<br />reflection by Michael Singleton, director of coaching, Massachusetts Youth Soccer Association 16</p> <p>Gary Snyders's "For the Children"<br />reflection by Betsy Taylor, founder, Center for the New American Dream 18</p> <p>Theodore Roethke's "Cuttings (Later)"<br />reflection by Brian D. McLaren, author, speaker, evangelical activist 20</p> <p>T. S. Eliot's "Little Gidding" [Excerpt]<br />reflection by Kathleen Kostelny, international consultant on children affected by war and violence 22</p> <p>Marge Piercy's "To be of use"<br />reflection by Martha Bergmark, president, Mississippi Center for Justice 24</p> <p>Eugene McCarthy's "Ares"<br />reflection by Mary Beth Yarrow, documentary film producer 26</p> <p><b>Defining Moments 29</b></p> <p>Adrienne Rich's "In Those Years"<br />reflection by Peter Karoff, founder and chairman, The Philanthropic Initiative 30</p> <p>Wendell Berry's "A Vision"<br />reflection by Barbara Hummel, corporate and nonprofit facilitator 32</p> <p>William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 29"<br />reflection by Orli Cotel, national publicist, Sierra Club 34</p> <p>Denise Levertov's "The Avowal"<br />reflection by Craig Dykstra, senior vice president, Lilly Endowment 36</p> <p>Marge Piercy's "The seven of pentacles"<br />reflection by Jake B. Schrum, president, Southwestern University 38</p> <p>Naomi Shihab Nye's "The Art of Disappearing"<br />reflection by Ted Falcon, rabbi and radio host 40</p> <p>T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" [Excerpt]<br />reflection by Joseph L. Subbiondo, president, California Institute of Integral Studies 42</p> <p>William Ayot's "The Contract"<br />reflection by Geoff Bellman, leadership consultant and author 44</p> <p>Amelia Earhart's "Courage"<br />reflection by John Wimmer, program director, Lilly Endowment 46</p> <p>William Stafford's "Listening"<br />reflection by David Brooks Andrews, journalist 48</p> <p>Naomi Shihab Nye's "Adios"<br />reflection by Pamela Seigle, executive director, Center for Courage & Renewal Northeast 48</p> <p><b>Sometimes It Aches 53</b></p> <p>Ghalib's "For the raindrop, joy is in entering the river"<br />reflection by Ann Myers, former school superintendent 54</p> <p>Mary Oliver's "Spring Azures"<br />reflection by Bonnie Allen, president, Center for Law & Renewal 56</p> <p>William Blake's "Auguries of Innocence" [Excerpt]<br />reflection by James O'Leary, Catholic priest 58</p> <p>Judy Brown's "Trough"<br />reflection by Linda Wolfe, small-business owner 60</p> <p>Rumi's "Childhood Friends" [Excerpt]<br />reflection by Karen E. Adams, physician and medical residency program director 62</p> <p>Langston Hughes's "Mother to Son"<br />reflection by Estrus Tucker, president and CEO, Liberation Community, Inc. 64</p> <p>Yehuda Amichai's "End of Elul"<br />reflection by Liz Lerman, artistic director, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange 66</p> <p>Carol Prejean Zippert's "When You Get Lost"<br />reflection by Tom Beech, president and CEO, Fetzer Institute 68</p> <p>Henry Nouwen's "Work Around Your Abyss"<br />reflection by John Marston, alternative schools administrator 70</p> <p>Gabriela Mistral's "Daybreak/Amanecer"<br />reflection by Sandra P. Daley, pediatrician and medical school dean 72</p> <p>Mark Nepo's "Accepting This"<br />reflection by Wayne Muller, minister and author 74</p> <p><b>Pay Attention 77</b></p> <p>David Wagoner's "Lost"<br />reflection by Peter Senge, founding chair, Society for Organizational Learning 78</p> <p>Rainer Maria Rilke's "I am too alone in the world, and not alone enough" [Excerpt]<br />reflection by Bill White, pastor, Emmanuel Church 80</p> <p>John O'Donohue's "Fluent"<br />reflection by Carla M. Dahl, psychotherapist and dean at Bethel Seminary 82</p> <p>Tao Ching's "#33"<br />reflection by Kevin Fickenscher, executive vice president, Healthcare Transformation at Perot Systems 84</p> <p>David Whyte's "The Opening of Eyes"<br />reflection by Hanna B. Sherman, physician and medical educator 86</p> <p>William Ernest Henley's "Invictus"<br />reflection by David J. Garren, professor, U.S. Naval Academy 88</p> <p>Nevin Compton Trammell's "I'm Tired, I'm Whipped"<br />reflection by Karen Lee Turner, pastoral musician 90</p> <p>Yehuda Amichai's "The Diameter of the Bomb"<br />reflection by Howie Schaffer, public outreach director, Public Education Network 92</p> <p>Rainer Maria Rilke's "The Panther"<br />reflection by David C. Leach, physician and executive director of Accreditation</p> <p><b>Council for Graduate Medical Education 94</b></p> <p>William Stafford's "With Kit, Age 7, At the Beach"<br />reflection by Lee Rush, founder and executive director, justCommunity, Inc. 96</p> <p>Pablo Neruda's "XXXI"<br />reflection by Tony Deifell, founding board member, KaBOOM! 98</p> <p>William Butler Yeats's "The Lover pleads with his Friend for Old Friends"<br />reflection by Jim McDermott, congressman, 7th district of Washington 100</p> <p>Robert Frost's "Mending Wall"<br />reflection by Adam Bunting, high school administrator 102</p> <p><b>The Real Bottom Line 105</b></p> <p>Mary Oliver's "The Ponds"<br />reflection by James A. Autry, author and former Fortune 500 executive 106</p> <p>Wallace Stevens's "The Pleasures of Merely Circulating"<br />reflection by Joan Blades, cofounder, MoveOn.org 108</p> <p>Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"<br />reflection by James E. Rogers, president and CEO, Duke Energy Corporation 110</p> <p>Charles Simic's "Stone"<br />reflection by Dean Conway, middle school teacher and coach 112</p> <p>Wendell Berry's "Sabbaths"<br />reflection by Jay F. Smith, superintendent, United Methodist Church 114</p> <p>W. H. Auden's "After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics"<br />reflection by Eric Walsh, physician and associate chairman of Family Medicine 116</p> <p>Paul Mariani's "The Peaceable Kingdom"<br />reflection by Robert (Chip) Wood, elementary school principal 118</p> <p>Stephen Spender's "The Truly Great"<br />reflection by Betty Sue Flowers, director, Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum 122</p> <p>Rabindranath Tagore's "The Grasp of Your Hand"<br />reflection by L. J. Rittenhouse, president, andBEYOND Communications 124</p> <p>Mary Oliver's "What I Have Learned So Far"<br />reflection by Paul Batalden, physician and medical educator 126</p> <p>Billy Collins's "The Night House"<br />reflection by Sterling K. Speirn, president and CEO, W. K. Kellogg Foundation 128</p> <p><b>Dare to Endure 131</b></p> <p>Robert Browning's "Andrea del Sarto" [Excerpt]<br />reflection by Harry Barnes, former ambassador, Romania, India, and Chile 132</p> <p>Ezzeddin Nasafi's "Oh, my friend"<br />reflection by Charles Gibbs, executive director, United Religions Initiative 134</p> <p>Jack Gilbert's "The Abnormal Is Not Courage"<br />reflection by Jim Burke, author and high school teacher 136</p> <p>Ibn Arabi's "There was a time I would reject those"<br />reflection by Eboo Patel, founder and executive director, Interfatih Youth Core. 138</p> <p>Winston O. Abbott's "Let me remember"<br />reflection by Annie Goeke de La Bouillerie, codirector, Earth Rights Institute 140</p> <p>Rumi's "What is This Fragrance" [Excerpt]<br />reflection by Jamal Rahman, Muslim Sufi minister at the Interfaith Community Church 142</p> <p>Reb Nachman's "The entire world is a very narrow bridge"<br />reflection by Jaime Banks, communications researcher in public health 144</p> <p>Seamus Heaney's "The Cure at Troy" [Excerpt]<br />reflection by Doug Tanner, founder, The Faith & Politics Institute 146</p> <p>Kenneth Patchen's "In Order to"<br />reflection by Peter Pollard, public education director, Stop It Now! 148</p> <p>William Butler Yeats's "Earth, Fire and Water" [Excerpt]<br />reflection by Elizabeth A. Keene Reder, bereavement coordinator, Johns Hopkins Children's Center 150</p> <p>Holly Near's "The Rock Will Wear Away" [Excerpt]<br />reflection by Tammy Baldwin, congresswoman, 2nd district of Wisconsin 152</p> <p><b>Leading Together 155</b></p> <p>Robert Creeley's "The Warning"<br />reflection by Dan Wieden, founder, Wieden + Kennedy ad agency 156</p> <p>Langston Hughes's "Let America Be America Again" [Excerpt] and Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel" [Excerpt]<br />reflection by Linda K. Bowen, executive director, Institute for Community Peace 158</p> <p>Walt Whitman's "Song of the Open Road" [Excerpt]<br />reflection by Janet Tiebout Hanson, founder, 85 Broads; and chair, Milestone Capital 160</p> <p>Louis MacNeice's "Snow"<br />reflection by Irene Martin, Episcopal priest and commercial fisher 164</p> <p>Emily Dickinson's "I dwell in Possibility"<br />reflection by Eileen Quinn, senior communications officer, PATH 166</p> <p>Wislawa Szymborska's "A Note"\<br />reflection by Billy Shore, founder and executive director, Share Our Strength 168</p> <p>Claudia Schmidt's "Replenish"<br />reflection by Molly D. Anderson, food systems scholar 170</p> <p>Liz Rosenberg's "In the End We Are All Light"<br />reflection by Ted Lord, president and CEO, Humanities Washington 172</p> <p>May Sarton's "All Souls"<br />reflection by Patricia E. de Jong, minister, First Congregational Church of Berkeley 174</p> <p>Hafiz's "How do I listen?"<br />reflection by Pat Moore Harbour, founding director, Healing the Heart of Diversity 176</p> <p>Emily Dickinson's "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant"<br />reflection by Thomas B. Coburn, president, Naropa University 178</p> <p>Robert Service's "The Spell of the Yukon" [Excerpt]<br />reflection by Linda Chamberlain, epidemiologist and founding director, Alaska Family Violence Prevention Project 180</p> <p>Martin Luther King Jr.'s "The Drum Major Instinct" [Excerpt]<br />reflection by Jim Kielsmeier, founder, president, and CEO, National Youth Leadership Council 182</p> <p><b>Back At It 185</b></p> <p>Thich Nhat Hanh's "For Warmth"<br />reflection by Henry Emmons, physician and author 186</p> <p>Robert Frost's "Directive"<br />reflection by Tom Allen, congressman, 1st district of Maine 188</p> <p>Judy Brown's "Fire"<br />reflection by Becky van der Bogert, former school superintendent 192</p> <p>Daisy Zamora's "Song of Hope"<br />reflection by Kathleen Gille, former congressional aide 194</p> <p>Lao Tzu's "The uses of not"<br />reflection by Peter Schneider, architect 196</p> <p>Naomi Shihab Nye's "Kindness"<br />reflection by Lois Capps, congresswoman, 23rd distrrict of California 198</p> <p>Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"<br />reflection by Brian Dunlap, high school administrator 200</p> <p>William Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey"<br />reflection by Carol Tecla Christ, president, Smith College 202</p> <p>Wendell Berry's "The Peace of Wild Things"<br />reflection by Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer, founder and president, AmericaSpeaks 206</p> <p>William Stafford's "Silver Star"<br />reflection by Diana Chapman Walsh, former president, Wellesley College 208</p> <p>Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses" [Excerpt]<br />reflection by John C. Bogle, founder, The Vanguard Group 210</p> <p><b>Leading with Fire: Using Poetry in Our Life and Work 213</b></p> <p>Afterword by David Whyte 237</p> <p>Gratitudes 241</p> <p>Center for Courage & Renewal 245</p> <p>The Editors 247</p> <p>Credits 249</p>

<p><b>Sam M. Intrator</b> is a professor at Smith College and founder of the Smith College Urban Education Initiative. A Kellogg National Leadership Fellow, he is the author/editor of five books, including <i>Tuned In and Fired Up</i>, <i>Teaching with Fire</i>, and <i>Stories of the Courage to Teach</i>.</p> <p><b>Megan Scribner</b> is an editor who also documents and evaluates programs for nonprofits. She is the coeditor of <i>Teaching with Fire</i> and coauthor with Parker J. Palmer of <i>The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal</i>, Tenth Anniversary Edition.</p>

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