Education and Children’s Programs
What are poems?
A transfer of feelings, connect by synchronous threads of information and meaning, set with cadence and rhyme.
Larry Robinson
Larry Robinson was born in Tiburon, California and came to Sonoma County, California in 1976.[1] He graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1969[2] and earned his Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Sonoma State University[3]
Beginning in 1987, he worked as a psychotherapist for nearly 20 years and is now retired. He served on the Sebastopol, California City Council from 1998-2010,[4] including serving as Mayor from 2000-2001 and 2004-2005; during those periods, he was part of a Green Party majority on the City Council.[5]
Robinson founded the Rumi’s Caravan event in 2000, an evening of poetry in the ecstatic tradition, which takes place annually, most recently at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, California. There is also a traveling troupe of poetry performers associated with the caravan. All of the performances raise money for nonprofit projects.
Loves This Miraculous
World
By Wendall Berry
The Comfort of
Each
By Mark Nepo
Beannacht
By
John O’Donohue
Beginners
By
Denise Levertov
The Peace of
Wild Things
By Wendall Berry
Rise and Full
by Larry Robinson
Doug von Koss is an artist, teacher and performer who presents chanting workshops, poetry performances, rituals and other festive surprises around the world. He is a founding member of Rumi’s Caravan in California. …
You Don’t Have
to be Good
By Mary Oliver
A Man Doesn’t Have
Time
By Yehuda Amichai
Go Inside a
Stone
By Charles Phoenix
I Have Walked Along
Many Roads
By Antonio Machado
If I am
Listening
By Sophia De Mello Breyner
Touch the Air Softly
Willioam J. Smith
Cargo
Greg Kimura
Tat Tvam Asi
Sanskrit
Wild Children
Poem by Jeanine Willis
