For the first time, I was drawn to the Stations not as a meditation on Jesus’ suffering but as a place to lay my own burden down.
Philip Metres
Philip Metres is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, including Dispatches from the Land of Erasure. He is a professor of English at John Carroll University.
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Questions After Jacopo Bassano’s “Lazarus and the Rich Man”
It’s already late—where is the feast inside?
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For Leila Means Night and Night Is Beautiful to the Desert Mind—for my daughter
today I learn
for the first time the inside
of a girl’s hair, to brush the hair
beneath the hair.
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Singing About The Dark Times: A writer’s Advent journal
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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Lamech Inventing The Oud
O unnamed & only
son too soon
slipped from tender clutch
of unripe body
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Homing in: The place of poetry in the global digital age
In our global digital age, what can poetry and the arts do?
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Votive Ivory on Display: Nicodemus Below the Cross
So easy to mistake him for the crucifier,