VOLUME 5
Scott Cairns, Susanna Childress Reading Their Poems
Continuing our National Poetry Month theme of poets reading their poems, here are two poets who spoke at the Festival last week:
Susanna Childress and Scott Cairns
Julia Spicher Kasdorf – Poetry in America [Featured Review]
Reflecting on Nostalgia, Loss, and Flight A Featured Review of Poetry in America Julia Spicher Kasdorf Paperback: U of Pittsburgh […]
Li-Young Lee. “This Room and Everything in it” [Poem]
Continuing our National Poetry Month series of poet’s reading their own work…
Another Festival of Faith and Writing speaker, Li-Young Lee, reading his poem “The Room and Everything in it”
from the collection:
The City in Which I Love You.
Crafting a Rule of Life – Stephen Macchia [Review]
Crafting a Rule of Life would be an effective adult education study, seasonal endeavor, or personal exercise in pausing to organize one’s thoughts and feelings around a central calling from God. While it provides a taste of Benedictine thought, the Rule of St. Benedict is not the featured flavor of the month. Instead, it is a quiet, historic partner in the background and is accompanied by other classic and traditional flavors meant to provide accompaniment for a modern person of faith’s journey.
Abba, Give Me a Word – L. Roger Owens [Brief Review]
It’s hip to be a monk. Monastic practices have become the rage in North American Christendom and not just among Catholics and Anglicans. It would not be surprising to find a young Southern Baptist for whom the praying of the hours has taken a significant place in their life with God. Or a Vineyard pastor organizing a retreat for solitude and silence.
