My thoughts on tragedy, poetry, symbol, issues, and grieving online. Ruminate.
blog posts
The Poem That Desires
A Poem that Desires: Changing the Secular/Sacred Conversation
“Let’s ignore for a moment the secular/sacred dichotomy and talk about how the writing of a poem is an act of desire, and that this desire is the same one that reaches out toward the other, the sacred, the little or big “g,” “God.” If this is the conversation we engage in, not only is there no need for the secular/sacred divide—it doesn’t even exist.”
Read more of my latest blog here
New Year’s Resolution
Head over to Ruminate for my post “6 Literary Magazines you should read in 2014”
Why 6? I’m not sure…
How to Find a Church
Thoughts on the anxieties of finding (or not finding) a church from a nomadic twenty-something (ie: me).
32 Poems
Accidental Voyeur
Where is the line between witness and voyeur? And as people of faith who are
often inundated with this call to “witness”—how can we know when
we’ve crossed the line into voyeurism?
Read about it in my most recent Ruminate post.
Exert Yourself: Confessions of a Reluctant Jane Austen Reader
Read my most recent Ruminate blog post about my conversion experience with author Jane Austen’s work.
A Conversation with Susanna Childress
Check out my interview with Susanna Childress over at the Colorado Review’s Editor’s Blog.
We discuss her seven part poem “The Hyssop Tub” which is featured in the Summer 2011 issue of CR.
Dirt Hugger Blog Post
My latest for Ruminate Magazine discusses why dirt matters. Give it a read here.
“We rise and fall by dirt. We breathe it, eat it, return to it in death. The ground-up bones, fermented food,
and skin particles—worms and all.”
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