Richard Whittaker

About the Author

Richard Whittaker is the West Coast Editor of Parabola and is the founding editor of works & conversations. A collection of his interviews, The Conversations, Interviews with Sixteen Contemprary Artists, is available from the University of Nebraska Press.

Author Archive Page

On Hopelessness and Hope: A Conversation with Deep Psychologist Michael Penn

October 27, 2018By Richard Whittaker

A conversation with deep psychologist Michael Penn

To Try To Have Some Healing, A Conversation with Silas Hagerty

November 22, 2016By Richard Whittaker

Silas Hagerty was a young filmmaker in his twenties when I met him at a Servicespace retreat. […]

“Tell me, what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” The beloved poet Mary Oliver posed this question in the poem “The Summer Day.” It became a call to attention for countless appreciative readers long before her death earlier this year. What is the wild and what makes it precious? Our Summer 2019 issue, on the theme of “The Wild,” commemorates the extraordinary life and spirit of Oliver. It is an enduring honor to us that for years she contributed poetry to these pages.. Read more>

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