In this season of Poetic Resurrection, I explore poetry as a living practice by sharing poems from Awakening Dreams. A poem continues to change long after I have written its final line. When I return to it months or years later, experience brings something new to the reading. A phrase I once understood through sorrow may reveal acceptance. A question may become more complex, or I may finally be ready to sit with it.
That ongoing conversation is at the heart of Poetic Resurrection.
Through the podcast, I bring poetry into spoken performance and explore its relationship to memory, identity, spirituality, and everyday life. My work as a writer and performer meets here: the words on the page become voice, rhythm, breath, and silence. Reading aloud allows me to discover where a poem asks us to pause and what feelings emerge in that space.
My published collections—including Inspire Me: Raw, Inspire Me: Perceptions, Inspire Me: Awakening Dreams, and Follow: Akashic Dreaming Through Time—explore different aspects of our inner lives. Across these books, I return to questions about how we understand ourselves, what we carry, and how our understanding changes over time.
In this season of Poetic Resurrection, I have been sharing poems from Awakening Dreams. Revisiting them offers an opportunity to reflect on both the experiences behind the writing and what the poems mean to me today.
My recent episode, “When Doing Gives Way to Being,” explores a shift in priorities that I have felt in my own life. Growing up with little, I placed great importance on achievement and financial security. I wanted my work to be seen. Those desires shaped many of my choices.
I still care about reaching readers and listeners. But I have become more attentive to the quality of my daily life. The pleasure of creating, the freedom to follow an idea, and the peace of having time to reflect. Poetry helps me examine that shift honestly, including the uncertainty that comes with it.
Poetry as a Living Practice Through Meditation
My meditation work offers another way to share these explorations. Through The Still Point Minute, my year-long series of short meditations on YouTube, I invite viewers to pause and reflect on themes such as presence, compassion, trust, and freedom. Poetry and guided meditation both encourage close attention—to a word, a feeling, a memory, or a moment we might otherwise pass over. These recordings offer an accessible space for reflection and a gentle invitation to return to ourselves.
Alongside my poetry and audio work, I am developing a collection of dream-based psychological science-fiction stories. These drafts allow me to explore consciousness, perception, and identity through characters and imagined worlds. Working in another form brings fresh questions to my writing and challenges me to find different ways of expressing them.
Poetic Resurrection remains a place where I can share that evolving practice. Each episode begins with something that has held my attention and an invitation to consider it together.
I hope you will listen to “When Doing Gives Way to Being” and explore the poems and conversations throughout the podcast. Perhaps something you hear will stay with you—or help you find words for an experience of your own.
Thank you for joining me in exploring Poetry as a Living Practice, and may these words offer a moment of connection and reflection in your own life.
Many Blessings,
Sonia Iris Lozada
This month, our guest on the Poetic Resurrection Podcast is Inam Inamullah. We delve into his book “Whispers of the Flight,” a Sufistic novel that explores the journey of self-discovery through life’s peaks and valleys. In addition, we take a look at his personal experiences and how he rose to become an internationally recognized artist, with one of his commissioned pieces displayed at the Carnegie Hall Tower in New York City. It was a fascinating conversation with a guest who has much wisdom to share. Don’t miss it!
Inam, originally from South Asia, is a world-renowned artist, poet, and playwright. His work has earned international acclaim for its depth, creativity, and spiritual insight. Despite the challenges he faced early in life, including the hardships brought on by polio, Inam found solace in his art. Through resilience and a profound sense of creativity, he transformed his struggles into a source of beauty and inspiration.
It is with great honor and excitement that The Poetic Resurrection Podcast welcomes our fourth Los Angeles Poet Laureate, Lynne Thompson, as our distinguished guest. Her words flow gracefully and effortlessly as she reads several of her poignant poems, including Ode to Bones and A Woman’s Body, Aging, Still Loves Itself from her latest book Blue on a Blue Palette. Through our conversation, Lynne shares insight into her poetic process, the lessons she has gleaned along her journey, and powerful observations on the current state of women’s lives and history. Tune in to experience the eloquent wordsmith at work and delve into an enlightening dialogue with this remarkable poet.
In the May 2024 episode of the Poetic Resurrection Podcast features the incredibly talented Rha Arayal, a poet/writer who has graced our show before. In the time since her last appearance, she has added several more titles to her impressive collection, including her latest work, Sunset Hues. As our honored guest, she treats us to a powerful reading of two of her newest poems – “The Graveyard of Ambition” and “Maya” – both featured in her upcoming book. During our conversation, we delve into a range of thought-provoking topics such as Shakespeare, the fascinating realm of lucid dreaming, and how her experiences at university have shaped her daily creative process. Prepare to be captivated by this dynamic discussion with one of poetry’s most promising voices.
Writing poetry has been a passion of mine ever since I learned how to write. However, for the past couple of years, I have been determined to complete my next book in the Inspire Me Series, titled “Inspire Me: Awakening Dreams.” Lately, though, my thoughts have been clouded and focused on sci-fi short stories instead. My goal is to finish this poetry book by summer so that I can fully dedicate myself to the short stories. It’s strange how my writing habits have changed – from writing multiple poems a week to only one a month. Perhaps it’s due to the pandemic, or the loss of my mother and close friend soon after. Strange Thing Grief, is the title of one of my upcoming poems, referring to how grief has affected all aspects of my life. Simple things are no longer simple. Writing poetry used to be therapeutic for me, but lately my emotions have been too heavy to express through writing. This poem, “Bound,” is from my previous book 
We are thrilled to announce that Jack Remick will join us as our guest for this month’s episode on the Poetic Resurrection Podcast. He’s a poet and a writer and he recites his poems, Dying Dreams, Secret Disease and Lovdeth, from his poetry collection entitled 
In this January 2024 episode, I’ll discuss poetry and read Shade of Being.