Last spring we launched a series with poets whose work we love and want to feature and will continue it moving forward. Our next poet is Tania Runyan whose work is centered on grappling with biblical themes and contradictions. Read her poetry and discover more about the connections she makes between poetry and the sacred. Man is Without Excuse Perhaps you could say that in Rome, Paul, where the olive trees of the Seven Hills strung their pearls of rain against the sky. And yes, as I hike Glacier Park with a well-stocked pack, I can welcome God’s ambassadors of fireweed

Last spring we launched a series with poets whose work we love and want to feature and will continue it moving forward. Our next poet is Judyth Hill whose work is currently centered on honoring the ordinary. Read her poetry and discover more about the connections she makes between poetry and the sacred. Listen below to hear Judyth read her poems: The Hand That Holds the Pen Can Rock the World, On Call for Life, Writing Home, and WAGE PEACE. Wage Peace Wage peace with your breath. Breathe in firemen and rubble, breathe out whole buildings and flocks of red wing blackbirds. Breathe

Last spring we launched a series with poets whose work we love and want to feature and will continue it moving forward. Our next poet is Paul Quenon whose work is inspired by his monastic community, the natural environment, and most recently, personal experiences in meditation.Read his poetry and discover more about the connections he makes between poetry and the sacred. This rather recent poem is based on my meditation practice which is mainly a matter of being present to the moment. God is in the actual and much else too. Seashell of Time This moment, cast up on your

Last spring we launched a series with poets whose work we love and want to feature and will continue it moving forward. Our next poet is Susan Miller, whose work is inspired by the sacred in relationship. Read her poetry and discover more about the connections she makes between poetry and the sacred. Et In Arcadia Ego For Anya Krugovoy Silver Yesterday a new Tom Waits song was released, and I thought of you. In a different world we would have met up this October, our heads together over a cafe table, and we could have sung it like schoolgirls singing the

Last spring we launched a series with poets whose work we love and want to feature and will continue it moving forward. Our next poet is Bonnie Thurston, whose work facilitates “seeing through” the particular to universals  Read her poetry and discover more about the connections she makes between poetry and the sacred. Compassion in a Cold Climate After mild December, sudden cold scalpeled in sharply, dropped snow, a bandage covering wounds. We are all wounded, rent asunder by our intransigent opinions, by our palavering politicians interested in positions of power but not good, ordinary folk who keep the engine of state

Last spring we launched a series with poets whose work we love and want to feature and will continue it moving forward. Our next poet is Joel McKerrow whose work is inspired by liminal spaces.  You can watch Joel’s poem videos and read more about the connections he makes between poetry and the sacred. Joel McKerrow- WIND (with Spike Mason). from Joel McKerrow on Vimeo. Themes of His Work I have just finished working on a book, a creative non-fiction all about the spiritual journey. Its called WOVEN: A Spirituality for the Dissatisfied and is being published in November. So a

Last spring we launched a series with poets whose work we love and want to feature and will continue it moving forward. Our next poet is Marjorie Maddox, whose work focuses on the intersection of body and spirit.  You can hear Marjorie reading her poem “Prayer” below and read more about the connections she makes between poetry and the sacred. And the Topic for Today Is Environmentalism . . . . Teaching “God’s Grandeur” More politically correct than divine grandeur, it too flames out in this small Pennsylvania town where fracking hijacks the headlines. Good reason and good enough to bring