St. Columba’s Inverness
POETRY AND SPIRITUALTY SERIES
Zoom workshop
DATE CHANGE-
July 29, 2023 11am - 3pm PDT
with Jeanne Foster and Alan Williamson
"What is this wild prayer of longing that issues from the heart?” Nathan Scott Jr.
In a secular age, modern and contemporary poetry has often been concerned with where the sense of the sacred and the numinous can be found outside the parameters of traditional religious doctrine. One might look at the moments when we can suddenly “rejoice with things”; we might consider religious hope and despair as permanent conditions in the depths of the mind.
Jeanne Foster and Alan Williamson poets from the San Francisco Bay Area will engage in a dialogue about poetry and the sacred, read from their own work and the work of some modern and contemporary poets including Wallace Stevens, James Wright and Anne Sexton. They will discuss Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer, Nobel Prize winner, whose considerable influence on American poetry was due to his interest in the border between our inner worlds, the terrain of introspection and surrealism, and the world we share with others as fellow citizens.
Cost: $50 with partial scholarships available
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