(He)Art + Soul
writing, teaching, sitting, praying, talking, thinking, being
Following are links to some essays, talks, and conversations that might be of interest to you. I will be organizing them loosely in a few categories. For now, however, here they are in a rather random order. You can find many more short essays at Slant Book’s “Close Reading” and Image’s “Good Letters.”
On Home and Exile
Home, the Supreme Fiction, April 14, 2022
Circumcision Does It To Us, May 9, 2022
What Are We Doing Here?, June 6, 2022
Whatever We Imagine Is Home, August 25, 2022
On Poems and Poetry
Dancing With Words During National Poetry Month, April 10, 2017
Receiving "What Is", March 13, 2015
Sonia Sanchez Made Me a Jewish Poet; Rhonda Magee Helped Make Me Whole, October 28, 2015
The Dead Don’t Get Around Much Anymore, June 21, 2021
These Splendid Days, November 16, 2020
Happiness, Something Little, April 16, 2020
A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention, March 14, 2020
Who Gives Sight to the Blind, July 20, 2020
On Spirit, On Soul
What Else to Call It but Love, March 17, 2022
Praying with the Body, August 7, 2019
Original Language, June 8, 2020
Erasure as a Spiritual Practice, September 24, 2020
Word: I Dwell in the House of God, Image, Issue 75
Traveling Through These Days of Awe, October 17, 2016
On Contemplative Teaching
By Heart: for the work of getting a grip on certain fragile things, Spring 2020
You Must be Present to Learn, from Good Letters, August 10, 2016
My Wish for My Students, from Good Letters, November 19, 2015
Girl Meets God in the Classroom, part 1, January 7, 2015
Girl Meets God in the Classroom, part 2, January 8, 2015
The Sabbath and Liberal Arts Education, part 1, October 31, 2013
The Sabbath and Liberal Arts Education, Part 2, November 27, 2013
The Sabbath and Liberal Arts Education, Part 3, December 11, 2013
On Faith in Arts
On Being: Marilyn Nelson: Communal Pondering in a Noisy World, November 2016
(from Faith in Lit Festival, UNC Asheville; unedited recording)
Faith in Arts: A Conversation with Norman Fischer, Spring 2021
Faith in Arts: A Conversation with Rick Chess, Spring 2021
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