Poetry Readings by Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM

 

Thursday, December 29

     4:00 pm   Opening Prayer:

                      Three readings from T.S. Eliot’s “Murder in the Cathedral”

     4:30          Opening talk: will include Kabir’s Poem #19

     7:00          A GIVING by Brendan Kennelly

     9:00          SWEET DARKNESS by David Whyte

 

Friday, December 30

     9:00 am    MINDFUL by Mary Oliver

     10:00        INVERSNAID by Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J.

     11:00        SNOW GEESE by Mary Oliver

     2:00          I STRETCH MY ARMS by James Harpur

     3:00          MUTATIONS and ENTIRELY by Louis Macneice

     4:00          ON PARTING by Cate Marvin

 

Saturday, December 31

     9:00 am    FIRST HOUR by Sharon Olds

     10:00        HOW SURELY GRAVITY’S LAW by Rainer Maria Rilke

     11:00        TO MY MOTHER by Wendell Berry

     2:00          PEONIES by Mary Oliver

     3:00          WHEN DEATH COMES by Mary Oliver

     4:00          COURAGE by Anne Sexton