Poetry as Sacred Space
September 17, Wednesday 9 a.m. until 3 p.m.Poets use language to create a world of their own. For poets such as Rumi, Wordsworth, Hopkins and Hirschfield, this created world is space in which we can encounter the divine. It may be a landscape, a room, or the interior space of the heart. We will spend this day reading a few poems together, silently and aloud, in order to open some space for God within ourselves.
Presenters:
Dr. Jennifer Michael is Professor of English at the University of the South, where she specializes in the English Romantic period. She holds bachelor’s degrees from Sewanee and Oxford and a PhD from Northwestern. Her first book, Blake and the City, was published in 2006 by Bucknell University Press. This retreat will inform and be informed by her new book in progress, Apprehensions of the Sacred: Poetry and Contemplation.
Fee: $50 (includes noon meal)