On “Religious” Poetry

August 13, 2009

I’ve always been a bit confused when people refer to my religious poems versus the poems I’ve written about my family, or poems like “Thoughts on Human Beauty in the Y Locker Room.”  From the very beginning, I’ve considered all of my poems to be religious poems.  In their conception and in the labor that’s [...]

Can we talk?

August 6, 2009

So, you’re interested, but a conference? Really? I know what you’re thinking. I’ve done my time at “church” conferences and academic show-and-tells. Most of those events leave me glancing at the clock, to understate things a bit. It seems at so many festivals, conferences, and seminars the goal is to talk the audience into submission and [...]