N E W S

New Poetry book, Pilgrim, is here, with themes of departure, shelter, companionship, deep friendship and necessary transformations of friendship, the struggles at crucial thresholds and the arrivals that always become further departures.

David has been enjoying writing the essays for The Readers' Circle. Previous essays include Alone, Haunted, Heartbreak, Shadow and Procrastination - each an illuminating, thought-provoking perspective on the image evoked by the title.

Recent Media
TEDx Puget Sound:  Life at the Frontier: The Conversational Nature of Reality
Business Office Magazine:   Lyrical Leadership
The Observer:  Regret
Read David's essay, "The Poetic Narrative of Our Times" featured on The Huffington Post.
Radio Interview with Michael Stone on his insightful weekly program, Conversations, broadcast on Nevada City's KVMR 89.5.

Articles and Interviews:

New Dimensions radio interview
The Denver Post David Whyte's Nonprosaic World by Colleen Smith  
The Financial Times Article by David Honigmann
Pedestal Magazine Interview with Lee Rossi
The Harvard Business Review A Larger Language for Business

LETTERS FROM THE HOUSE

With the waning of the light, Autumn is naturally a time to turn inward, and every autumn for at least the past ten years, David has written a reflective essay for our annual brochure. Some of these are archived below. Pour yourself a glass, or brew a cup of tea, and browse these thought provoking pieces in front of your own hearth.

Letter from the House 2011

Letter from the House 2010

Letter from the House 2009

Letter from the House 2008

Letter from the House 2007

Letter from the House 2006

Letter from the House 2005

Letter from the House 2004

 

THE POET AS HUSBAND

I write in a small shadowed corner
in order to bear light into the world,
though the light is not my own.
My darkness is no darkness to you
and nothing you should wish upon yourself,
but my light shall also be your light,
in which we shall see differently
but gloriously. I am not lame inside me,
no matter that I drag my foot, I have run here
through all my infirmities to bring you news
of a battle already won. Let my last breath
speak victory into the world. The race is run
and shall be run again, joyfully, and you shall
run with me, the territory opened
to us like returned laughter
or remembered childhood. Remember,
I was here, and you were here,
and together we made a world.

- from Everything is Waiting for You