Poets Corner
Poet’s Corner is our new column devoted to poetry; a point of refuge in the online world where those who believe in the transformative power of language can come for contemplation and renewal. In pondering a name for this column, we remembered Poets’ Corner at Westminster Abbey, and, in NYC, St. John of the Divine Cathedral’s American Poets Corner. These sacred spaces in the physical world offer a palpable retreat from the bustle of the everyday; they are places where silence and only the most luminous and considered of words hold sway. We are drawn to this connection because we believe poetry can be a kind of sacred vocation as well as a contemplative encounter.
Today, When I Could Do Nothing
We hope you’re all finding ways to stay balanced and mindful during this challenging time. Our goal is to share creative inspiration in as many ways as possible…
Preserving the Arts and Humanities Means Protecting the Best in Us All
“{The national} 2021 budget calls for $30 million to close out the National Endowment for the Arts and $33.4 million to shutter the National Endowment for the Humanities. It also…
On Beauty, Attention, and the Sacred
Beauty is an achieved state of both deep attention and self-forgetting; the self forgetting of seeing, hearing, smelling or touching that erases our separation, our distance, our fear of…
Lost & Found: Bringing Lost Work to New Life
In terms of a magickal working — an inner visioning process, this is the portion of the work that involves cleaning up loose ends — + bringing to pass what…
The Space Between: On Turning to the Poetry of Jane Hirshfield
Some stories last many centuries,others only a moment.All alter over that lifetime like beach-glass,grow distant and more beautiful with salt. Yet even today, to look at a treeand ask the…
Standing in Light
How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! —…