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Poet Bruce Beasley with Evan Craig Reardon

22 views as of Jun 13, 2023 Bruce speaks about his ninth book of poetry, "Prayershreds," (Orison Books 2023). with Cathedral Arts poetry consultant Evan Craig Reardon. Released on June 13, 2023, this is a conversation about the limits of language in both poetry and prayer. The conversation concludes with Bruce reading three poems from Prayershreds. Support this and other projects of Cathedral Arts by making a donation: https://donorbox.org/cathedral-arts Begun with poems conceived during quarantine and lockdown, Bruce says, “This book’s poems go groping everywhere seeking for union amidst all the paradoxes, ambiguities, mysteries of faith and language……I see the book as an attempt to make sense of our physicospiritual lives in the midst of so much that wants to tear our understanding and even our ‘little’ faiths into shreds.” Bruce Beasley is a professor of English at Western Washington University and the author of nine collections of poems, including most recently "Prayershreds" (Orison Books, 2023). His books have won three national competitions: the Colorado Prize (selected by Charles Wright) for "Summer Mystagogia;" the Ohio State University Press/Journal Award for "The Creation;" and the University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series Award for "Lord Brain." He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Artist Trust of Washington and three Pushcart prizes in poetry. His work appears in Kenyon Review, Georgia Review, Southern Review, POETRY, Gettysburg Review, Yale Review, and many other journals.