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Philip Metres is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice and Human Rights program at John Carroll University. His latest poetry collection is Fugitive/Refuge. 

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I'd hear Mom groan, The Messiah, again?
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It's already late—where is the feast inside?
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today I learn for the first time the inside of a girl’s hair, to brush the hair beneath the hair.
Denise Alexander and Madison Craig put the finishing touches on an Advent wreath at the Shrine of St. Anthony in Ellicott City, Md., Nov. 30.
Philip Metres
During Advent a few years ago, I composed meditations each morning on the day’s scriptural readings as I experienced the season. This Advent journal was my experiment, my practice as a writer and a seeker, to anchor myself before each day pulled me in all its directions. I began with Scripture
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Then the Lord stretched out His hand and touched my mouth...
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O unnamed & only son too soon slipped from tender clutch of unripe body
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In our global digital age, what can poetry and the arts do?
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So easy to mistake him for the crucifier,