"A little meditation." That's how Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney described his poem, St. Kevin and the Blackbird. In it, he transforms a mythic legend about a 6th century Irish monk into a story about "doing the right thing for the reward of doing the right thing," which Heaney called "a labour of love." Heaney's narration is taken from a 2009 reading hosted by Faber and Faber, his longtime publisher in London, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. To honor the spirit of the poem as a