From the Director
The Retreat on the Practice of Spiritual Friendship brought together 28 people – the youngest 18 years old, the oldest 80. They came from several different religious traditions so we found a simple form of common prayer (of words and silence) which incorporated psalms, chants from the prayer of the ecumenical Community of Taize in France, and brief readings ....
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| email: | SophiaRVC@aol.com |
| mail: | Sophia
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| phone: | 631-425-6114 |
Universally acknowledged as the preeminent female poet of her native Ireland, Boland seeks to revitalize the image of women, pulling them out of their silent hiding places in history or out of the shadows of contemporary suburbs. In poems saturated with grief and longing, she celebrates the heroism of motherhood as well as the fierce desire of women to be known and recognized by the world at large. Her latest book of poems, The Lost Land, is a powerful testament to the Impact of Ireland’s history on a people and on the poet’s imagination. Among her other publications are An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967-1987, In a Time of Violence, and her 1995 memoir, Object Lessons: The Life of a Woman Poet in Our Time. Dr. Boland is Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University, and lives in Dublin when not in residence at Stanford. See "A Conversation with Eavan Boland" on page 2. |
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Announcements and Reminders Film
Series: Since the April date for the film series falls on Easter
Sunday, the spring series ends with the March 18th showing. If there is any interest in our creating a midweek evening summer film series, please write suggesting the day of the week, and the films you would be interested in seeing. April
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