I lieu of sharing my own thoughts, here are some other people’s writings that have impacted me lately. Awkward from Carl McColman. Jesus Walking On The Water: A Sermon Sarcastic and Serious from Nadia Bolz-Weber Reading Revolution: 14 Marvelous Modern Libraries Just Another Woman at Michfest from Alice Kalafarski A Prayer for Humility by William [...]
Archive for the ‘poetry’ Category
Some things I’ve been reading
September 7, 2011
The Wilds
July 15, 2011
CHAOS NEVER DIED. Primordial uncarved block, sole worshipful monster, inert & spontaneous, more ultraviolet than any mythology (like the shadows before Babylon), the original undifferentiated oneness-of-being still radiates serene as the black pennants of Assassins, random & perpetually intoxicated. T.A.Z. by Hakim Bey I’ve been slowly, slowly working my way through Catherine Keller’s The Face [...]
Walter Bruggeman on poets
October 6, 2010
It is not clear that life can be construed beyond the Empire… But the poets… have to try. Because they are poets. Because they are poets they never arrive, for poetry would then be a program, and they’re not doing programs. That does not render the poetry as failure or irrelevance.
Poem – “In Sound and Breath”
August 3, 2010
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] In Sound and Breath In sound and breath are we made. In words and wind are we formed. In language before language are we conceived and created, and in every utterance since we pay tribute to that, that primordial sound. Inert we lie until moved by breath. Life [...]
I Miss You
May 24, 2010
I Miss You I miss you. I just sort of whisper it to the north when I’m alone. I miss you. Or at least, I miss us. And us is something that isn’t right now. But no. I miss you, and the beauty and joy you brought into my life for a little while. The [...]