{"id":24971,"date":"2026-03-05T03:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=24971"},"modified":"2026-03-01T20:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:42:11","slug":"encore-episode-coleman-barks-rumi-grace-and-human-friendship","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/podcast\/encore-episode-coleman-barks-rumi-grace-and-human-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"[ENCORE EPISODE] Coleman Barks: Rumi, Grace, and Human Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-24971-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PD07843W_IATE_Coleman-Barks-ENCORE-2026.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PD07843W_IATE_Coleman-Barks-ENCORE-2026.mp3\">https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PD07843W_IATE_Coleman-Barks-ENCORE-2026.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An encore presentation in honor of Coleman Barks, who passed away on February 23, 2026. Tami Simon speaks with Coleman, a leading scholar and translator of the 13th-century Persian mystic, Jelaluddin Rumi. Coleman\u2019s work was the subject of an hour-long segment in Bill Moyers\u2019 <em>Language of Life<\/em> series with PBS. He has published numerous Rumi translations, including with Sounds True the audio programs <em>I Want Burning, Rumi: The Voice of Longing<\/em>, and his new three-CD collaboration with cellist David Darling called <em>Just Being Here: Rumi and Human Friendship<\/em>. In this episode, Tami speaks with Coleman about the extraordinary friendship between Rumi and his teacher, Shams Tabriz, and how translating Rumi requires entering a trance state. Coleman offers insights on grace as he and Tami listen to selections from <em>Just Being Here.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":24974,"template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[393],"tags":[170],"contributor":[510],"class_list":["post-24971","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-insights-at-the-edge","contributor-coleman-barks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>[ENCORE EPISODE] Coleman Barks: Rumi, Grace, and Human Friendship | Sounds True<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[ENCORE EPISODE] Coleman Barks: Rumi, Grace, and Human Friendship | Sounds True\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An encore presentation in honor of Coleman Barks, who passed away on February 23, 2026. 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