Once I Was a Stone

Icon of environmental consciousness, independent living, and social justice, Henry David Thoreau ...

Slouching Toward Radiance is a collection of nature poetry, meditations, gentle advice, and nudge...

What is the embodied shape of memory? How is it cared for and set down into the hearts of future ...

To celebrate our 10th Year in print, the The Wayfarer staff interviews each other to discuss our ...

While visiting their Secret Place-a treehouse and its owl-a shuddering jolt changes everything fo...

It's hard to imagine a poet who could take more joy in nature, both earthly and human. In Blue Ma...

It's hard to imagine a poet who could take more joy in nature, both earthly and human. In Blue Ma...

Walk Deep's devoted, interconnected journey toward authenticity is alive with deep feeling. Like ...

Refraction recounts the experience of working in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, a remote Arctic outpost and...

The Wayfarer Magazine Celebrates 10 YearsDedicated in Loving Memory of Fellow Wayfarer David K. L...

River, Amen reclaims religious rituals and resurrects them in the wilderness. What emerges is a d...

What does it take to 'live simply'? Sounds easy enough, but when we dig deeper into what drives t...

What does it take to 'live simply'? Sounds easy enough, but when we dig deeper into what drives t...

Beloved Trappist monk Thomas Keating is best known as one of the primary founders of the Centerin...

Traveling from the Peruvian Amazon to Beijing, from the Siberian tundra to Oaxacan villages, Ian ...

Many poets write about the natural world - few poets write while acting directly to defend the na...

'A stunning collection that embraces both the sensuality and the profound meaning of small moment...

'Throughout my life,' writes Jeff Darren Muse, 'manhood has been a kind of topographic map. Yet i...

Written in pandemic, Rick Benjamin's The Mob Within the Heart, is a poetic witnessing: of illness...

We are the only beings on earth who intrinsically wonder about our own end. But is there a way to...

Robbing the Pillars

In his first collection of poetry Quinn Bailey has crafted a book that is meant to live in your b...

'Verdict: Reading this expressive and beautifully written memoir is to experience one's own quest...

It felt like an emotional crucifixion-a dark year in which a father figure passed, a friend and m...

Hard-living tricksters, backwoods queers, and vengeful scoundrels collide with Southern-gothic hi...

'...There's never a moment when the writing is not totally true to his understanding of the lines...

Agapanthus was kidnapped when she was only two years old, but she doesn't remember it. In fact, s...

Slouching Toward Radiance is a collection of nature poetry, meditations, gentle advice, and nudge...

With pieces from Gunilla Norris, Frank Inzan Owen, Heidi Barr, Stephen Trimble, Emily Grandy, The...

After nearly thirty years living in the Salish Sea's San Juan Archipelago, Iris Graville felt com...

Disillusioned by the Vietnam War and their troubled pasts, Kate and Andy leave New York City for ...

What does it mean to be just wild enough?This is a collection of poetry that explores wildness th...

Can Buddhists Wear Mascara? features narrative poems deeply informed by the author's life. Throug...

'And This House is Only a Nest begins with an abuelo-a grandpa-who is not the gentle sort but one...

Industrial culture casts humans as parasites: devouring our living home. Yet endless metaphors ex...

In That We May Be One: Christian Non-Duality by Thomas Keating points to the ultimate destination...

Heartfulness: Transformation in Christ condenses the accumulated wisdom of Fr. Thomas Keating's m...

Winona Heeley spent the last year of recovery from eating disorders in rural Japan, at Michikusa ...

Brooke Williams walked twice into Southern Utah's Mary Jane Wilderness: at the beginning of the T...

In her late twenties, writer and naturalist Lucy Bryan found herself in between places. Her marri...

In this memoir-in-essays, Durham melds her backgrounds in psychology and ecology to examine her r...

'Woodland Manitou is a pure gift. A lovely combination of poetry and prose, it spans the human ex...

'Matthew Fox elegantly offers a contemplative practice that transforms the names of God to the ex...

'Within the poems of Into the Wind are painful glimpses into a childhood that still haunts the ma...

An Anthology Edited by Heidi Barr and Connor Wolfe. Featuring Essays from: Chris La Tray, Ana Mar...

In The Mike File, Stephen Trimble grapples with his brother's heartrending life and death and loo...

In this collection of observations, contemplations, and insights, award-winning author Thomas Llo...