Meredith Monday Schwartz
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5,660 appearances
13 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Meredith Monday Schwartz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So I think about the works especially of like one of the ones that really I mean, of course Mary Oliver was where I started.
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The first thing that I picked up is what was my gateway?
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A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver.
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And that was it's just 91 pages.
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I picked it up at a bookstore in Maine.
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And I picked it up because I had seen Helena Bonham Carter and Emma Thompson read Mary Oliver on Instagram.
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So I really enjoyed my reading of that.
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That's really what kind of got me into this.
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Like it just put me in this meditative headspace.
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And also when I read poetry, it also makes me feel like I'm
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I'm kind of keeping up my readerly muscles.
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Like I feel to a certain extent, not always, because my main reason for reading is entertainment and escape, but there is a part of me, it's that English major part of me that does want to keep up my my readerly muscles.
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Poetry is a way to do that.
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So Mary Oliver was kind of the way that I got into it.
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But then also on Instagram, apparently my poetry life is very related to Instagram, I found Georgie Jones on Instagram.
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She's a British spoken word poet and
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She is so good.
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She's so good.
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Like reading her own work.
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She is so good.
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