Poetry and Prayer
January 24-25, Sunday 3 p.m. until Monday 3 p.m.Spirituality & the Arts retreats are scheduled Sunday evenings through Monday afternoons and are an excellent opportunity for a brief but powerful retreat experience, either as an overnight guest or as a commuter. Please join us as we explore the ways our spiritual journeys are expanded and enhanced through participation, exploration, and the gift of inspiration as experienced through the arts.
Future retreats in this series will include creative expression and celebration of the arts and spirituality through painting, poetry, music, domestic arts, motion, icon writing, working with clay and weaving.
Spirituality & the Arts retreats are not listed in our annual Programs Brochure. Please visit our website for updates, information, and new additions to this series. If you would like to be included in our notification list for this series, please contact the center by e-mail stmarysoffice@bellsouth.net or by phone 931-598-5342.
Presenter:
Dr. Wyatt Prunty, is director of the Sewanee Writers' Conference at Sewanee: The University of the South. He has taught at the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, Louisiana State University, Washington and Lee University, and Middlebury's Bread Loaf School of English and Writers' Conference. Dr. Prunty is now Carlton Professor of English at Sewanee and the author of eight collections of poetry.
His published work includes Domestic of the Outer Banks(1980), The Times Between (1982), What Women Know, What Men Believe (1986), Balance as Belief (1989), The Run of the House (1993), Since the Noon Mail Stopped (1997),Unarmed and Dangerous (2000), and The Lover's Guide to Trapping (2009). Dr. Prunty's critical works include "Fallen from the Symboled World": Precedents for the New Formalism (Oxford University Press, 1990) and the forthcoming Rationed Compassion: Poetry Since World War II.
In 2005 Dr. Prunty was elected to the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Other honors include Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Johns Hopkins, and Brown Foundation fellowships. Editor of Sewanee Writers on Writing (Louisiana State University Press, 2000.) He served as general editor of the Sewanee Writers' Series and directs the Tennessee Williams Fellowship program at Sewanee.
Residential Fee: $100 Commuter Fee: $60 Deposit: $50