Join Jeremy Paden, author of how to recognize god’s chosen, for an exploration of poetry as spiritual practice. Both song and prayer are, perhaps, our earliest forms of poetry, and both give voice to our deepest longings. Both are also central in most religious practices. The word religion comes from religio. While Augustine proposes that religio come from religare, to bind again or to bind fast, Cicero states it comes from re-legere, to re-read or to read with care. In this workshop, we will focus on Cicero’s notion of reading and rereading: (re)reading the self, (re)reading the world, (re)reading other spiritual poets. Participants will be provided with an anthology of poems, as well as and reading and writing prompts that engage those poems with an eye toward writing new poems.

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Thursday, October 9, 6:00–8:00 PM • $40