On Saturday, October 24 from 1 to 2:30 pm EDT, I will join Jeffrey Overstreet in a live conversation on our recent books, the lifelong necessity of paying attention, and the challenges inherent in the spiritual and writing life. The program is hosted by Kelly Foster Lundquist, author of the award-winning Beard: A Memoir of a Marriage. Publisher’s Weekly described Lundquist’s memoir as “”at once brave and tender…a candid look at the burdens of love and the challenges of discovering oneself.”
Jeffrey’s new book, Lost and Found in the Cathedral of Cinema: A Spiritual Journey, is a film critic’s look at how movies helped lead him out of the fear-based religion of his childhood into an adult faith charged with beauty and imagination. Scott Teems calls Jeffrey Overstreet “…a bridge-builder, a writer who desires to connect what some perceive as disparate worlds–the world of faith and the world of cinema…Overstreet invites us into a deeper relationship with both, to discover how the study of one can inform our understanding of the other, and how faith and art in concert help keep us open to the staggering and beautiful mysteries that surround us.” Kathleen Norris writes, “Jeffrey Overstreet’s love of movies shines through every page of this engaging and thoughtful book.”
My second collection of poetry, Chora, is the fruit of careful observation and reflection. It has been described by Mark S. Burrows as containing “poems of a witness that come from a long and generous looking,” while Paul Mariani writes, “Page after page offers us another insight, a new sense of reality that only the poem can offer: the elegiac, yes, but then too the bounty of blessings we have been given.” This wide-ranging online conversation will conclude with an opportunity for the audience to ask questions.
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