by Brian Volck | Aug 13, 2024 | Over the Rhine, poetry, words
Jill and I are looking forward to some overdue travel, starting with the Nowhere Else Festival this Labor Day weekend. Thanks to Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler of Over the Rhine—the husband-and-wife indie-folk duo on whose farm the festival blossoms—the music,...
by Brian Volck | Aug 6, 2021 | poetry, Uncategorized
A poem for the Feast of the Transfiguration As We See “The transfiguration of our Lord, that is the radiancein which he was bathed at the pinnacle of Mount Tabordid not manifest a change in him, but a changein those who saw him.”-Isaac the Least Suppose the Holy One...
by Brian Volck | Feb 6, 2021 | poetry
Join me Wednesdays in March for the Inaugural L’Engle Seminars featuring poets, scientists, and mathematicians from both sides of the Atlantic. Details and registration here.
by Brian Volck | Jan 15, 2018 | poetry
Below is the late Richard Wilbur’s metaphorical exploration of one sentence of Thomas Traherne’s: “”Life without objects is a sensible emptiness, and that is a greater misery than death or nothing.” (Second Century, Meditation 65) The little we know of...
by Brian Volck | Jan 31, 2017 | Accountability, hospitality, Malcolm Guite, poetry
My friend (and master of the sonnet form), Malcolm Guite, published the collection in which this poem appears in 2012. Inhospitality to strangers is nothing new. It may help to remember that “xenos,” the Greek word from which English derives...
by Brian Volck | Dec 9, 2014 | poetry
Listen to the poem here. For my Mother at Advent I shall teach my children as you taught me: through patient example, gentle conduct, and shared symbols, gravid with mystery and grace. I recall how in Advents of my youth, you taught...
