Category: Poetry’s Job

“Poetry’s Job is to discover wholeness and create wholeness, including the wholeness of the fragmentary and the broken” Jane Hirshchfield.

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Week 3: Poetry’s Job

by michaelgriffith1 • November 21, 2024 • 0 Comments

Please find slides for the class this week. Audio will be posted soon. Please note also the updates to the itinerary for the poetic Pilgrimage in June/July next year – in the previous post: Find audio for Week 3 here https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hyhwalfkvde30s75sc8pb/New-Recording-184.m4a?rlkey=ygil8pvtevwwr2k61qylobeyl&st=l8spvif6&dl=0

4 Quartets, Francis Webb, Poetry of Grace @ Aquinas, Poetry's Job, The Call To Be, Visionary Blake, Visionary Imagination, x Blogging

1000 Years of Poetry and the Contemplative Tradition

by michaelgriffith1 • November 20, 2024 • 0 Comments

England 2025: Overview Please join me on this pilgrimage which begins in June/ July 2025. Please find the updated draft itinerary in the document that you can download at the end of this Overview. Please note that pricing for the pilgrimage is still being negotiated and the final details and the place where you can…

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Pope Francis’ Words on the Importance of Literature and Poetry in the Modern World.

by michaelgriffith1 • November 18, 2024 • 0 Comments

Please find attached these amazing words from the Pontif on how literature and poetry can be a true source of spiritual liberation. Enjoy!

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Class for Week 2

by michaelgriffith1 • November 15, 2024 • 0 Comments

Please find audio for this class and the visual images used. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/k7xzdf8i8s1ndb7t37byx/ALQaph4-eo21Jkl6h_EOFSE?rlkey=0slmnueqund5qhyx91os8njv2&st=o0mjtkw9&dl=0

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Poem by Colleen Keating (of the class of Poetry’s Job 2024)

by michaelgriffith1 • November 7, 2024 • 1 Comment

Two Canticles At a cottage by the sea I tackle Francis Webb, curious about his poetry from Cap and Bells. Outside a wild spring ocean’s curled waves tussle on the tide, comb to the edge, like spoonbills probing every squint of sand and wrack. The horizon — is drawn-in, appropriate for this day in this…

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Poems and Observations from “Poetry’s Job” The Call to Be November 2024

by michaelgriffith1 • November 5, 2024 • 1 Comment

Please submit your poems or text observations directly to Michael at: mjdgriffith@bigpond.com. Give the email title to your contribution as Poetry’s Job.