Colorado poet Sarah Reichart shows how kinetic and arduous the search for faith can be with her poem "Divine Struggle".
Tag: Spirituality
Maureen Martinez – How to Pass as a Woman of Faith
Emerging poet Maureen Martinez slows us down for a moment with her hybrid prose poem "How to Pass as a Woman of Faith".
Topher Shields – Toolbox: Inherited Instruments
"Toolbox: Inherited Instruments" is a six-sequence poem of raw ancestral sacredness wielded by Aotearoa (New Zealand) poet Topher Shields.
Pamela Wax – Dear Mayor
The prose poem "Dear Mayor" by Massachusetts poet Pamela Wax immerses us in layers of spiritual practice, grief, loss, and longing.
Erik Manuel Soto – Séance Under a Lunar Eclipse
Witness how endings give way to change through the serpentine form of Erik Manuel Soto's "Séance Under a Lunar Eclipse".
Jo Matthews – And what about prayers
In her powerful three-part poem "And what about prayers", poet Jo Matthews explores the potential and constraints of prayer and faith.
Christie Gardiner – Faith, perhaps
In Christie Gardiner's "Faith, perhaps", she shines the yellow-green glow of fireflies on the struggle to retain holiness in one's life.
Joanne Alfano – Hope
Positively radiant, Joanne Alfano's "Hope" is a poem that crashes through darkness with its opening lines like a clarion call.
Susan Coultrap-McQuin – Sunday Morning at the Cabin Up North
Poet Susan Coultrap-McQuin shows us nature's sacredness with her poem "Sunday Morning at the Cabin Up North".
‘When the Lights of Health Go Down’- Virginia Woolf on Being Ill
Virginia Woolf on our relationship to illness, its potential spiritual value, and the mysterious intelligence of the body.