Mark Nepo reads from his new poetry collection, Reduced to Joy.
Mark Nepo is a poet, philosopher and author of thirteen books including the New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening. A highly popular workshop leader, Nepo travels internationally. He lives and writes in southwest Michigan. Harvard Divinity School graduate Wayne Muller has been a therapist, minister, community advocate, consultant, public speaker, and bestselling author of A Life of Being, Having, and Doing Enough; Legacy of the Heart and Sabbath. He lives in Santa Fe, NM.
PRAISE
“Mark Nepo is a poet. He’s an author and a philosopher and has been through two different cancers. So when he writes, he writes purely from the heart. If we all do it together, we can begin to open our hearts, change the world, and begin to have the life you want by being present to the life you have now."
— Oprah Winfrey
"Reduced to Joy has many different kinds of poems, all of them clear, wise, beautifully put, spare. Mark Nepo has a great heart. His poems are good company."
— Coleman Barks, translator of The Essential Rumi
"Mark Nepo's poems in his new book, Reduced to Joy, reduce me first to grateful silence, and then to tears, and then to laughter, and then to praise. He joins a long tradition of truth-seeking, wild-hearted poets—Rumi, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver—and deserves a place in the center of the circle with them."
— Elizabeth Lesser, Cofounder, Omega Institute, author of Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help
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Mark Nepo is a poet, philosopher and author of thirteen books including the New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening. A highly popular workshop leader, Nepo travels internationally. He lives and writes in southwest Michigan. Harvard Divinity School graduate Wayne Muller has been a therapist, minister, community advocate, consultant, public speaker, and bestselling author of A Life of Being, Having, and Doing Enough; Legacy of the Heart and Sabbath. He lives in Santa Fe, NM.
PRAISE
“Mark Nepo is a poet. He’s an author and a philosopher and has been through two different cancers. So when he writes, he writes purely from the heart. If we all do it together, we can begin to open our hearts, change the world, and begin to have the life you want by being present to the life you have now."
— Oprah Winfrey
"Reduced to Joy has many different kinds of poems, all of them clear, wise, beautifully put, spare. Mark Nepo has a great heart. His poems are good company."
— Coleman Barks, translator of The Essential Rumi
"Mark Nepo's poems in his new book, Reduced to Joy, reduce me first to grateful silence, and then to tears, and then to laughter, and then to praise. He joins a long tradition of truth-seeking, wild-hearted poets—Rumi, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver—and deserves a place in the center of the circle with them."
— Elizabeth Lesser, Cofounder, Omega Institute, author of Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help
Mark Nepo reads from his new poetry collection, Reduced to Joy.
Mark Nepo is a poet, philosopher and author of thirteen books including the New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening. A highly popular workshop leader, Nepo travels internationally. He lives and writes in southwest Michigan. Harvard Divinity School graduate Wayne Muller has been a therapist, minister, community advocate, consultant, public speaker, and bestselling author of A Life of Being, Having, and Doing Enough; Legacy of the Heart and Sabbath. He lives in Santa Fe, NM.
PRAISE
“Mark Nepo is a poet. He’s an author and a philosopher and has been through two different cancers. So when he writes, he writes purely from the heart. If we all do it together, we can begin to open our hearts, change the world, and begin to have the life you want by being present to the life you have now."
— Oprah Winfrey
"Reduced to Joy has many different kinds of poems, all of them clear, wise, beautifully put, spare. Mark Nepo has a great heart. His poems are good company."
— Coleman Barks, translator of The Essential Rumi
"Mark Nepo's poems in his new book, Reduced to Joy, reduce me first to grateful silence, and then to tears, and then to laughter, and then to praise. He joins a long tradition of truth-seeking, wild-hearted poets—Rumi, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver—and deserves a place in the center of the circle with them."
— Elizabeth Lesser, Cofounder, Omega Institute, author of Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help
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Mark Nepo is a poet, philosopher and author of thirteen books including the New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening. A highly popular workshop leader, Nepo travels internationally. He lives and writes in southwest Michigan. Harvard Divinity School graduate Wayne Muller has been a therapist, minister, community advocate, consultant, public speaker, and bestselling author of A Life of Being, Having, and Doing Enough; Legacy of the Heart and Sabbath. He lives in Santa Fe, NM.
PRAISE
“Mark Nepo is a poet. He’s an author and a philosopher and has been through two different cancers. So when he writes, he writes purely from the heart. If we all do it together, we can begin to open our hearts, change the world, and begin to have the life you want by being present to the life you have now."
— Oprah Winfrey
"Reduced to Joy has many different kinds of poems, all of them clear, wise, beautifully put, spare. Mark Nepo has a great heart. His poems are good company."
— Coleman Barks, translator of The Essential Rumi
"Mark Nepo's poems in his new book, Reduced to Joy, reduce me first to grateful silence, and then to tears, and then to laughter, and then to praise. He joins a long tradition of truth-seeking, wild-hearted poets—Rumi, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver—and deserves a place in the center of the circle with them."
— Elizabeth Lesser, Cofounder, Omega Institute, author of Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help
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