Tag Archives: Image Journal

I Will be a Question Mark – Image Journal Interviews Li-Young Lee

October 2, 2015 – 1:37 am

from An Interview with Li-Young Lee LYL : The word quest is in that word question. I feel as if I’m going to live my life as a giant question mark. I’m just going to live open, ready to encounter whatever God puts in front of me next. I have fewer and fewer answers. I […]

By Richard Osler | Posted in Poetry | Also tagged | Comments (1)

Joined by an Award and Much More! – Luci Shaw, Denise Levertov and Reflections on Faith and Spirit in Poetry

June 1, 2013 – 7:06 pm

Overhead The sun is a slow gong in a brass bowl, the moon also rings her bell against the indigo steel of the night sky. By painting, Emily Carr decoded heaven as a coastline vast bays of ripped blue and Vincent drew his circles tighter than the tattered orbits of his own life. Art like […]

By Richard Osler | Posted in Poetry | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Joined by an Award and Much More! – Luci Shaw, Denise Levertov and Reflections on Faith and Spirit in Poetry

An Alphabet of Poets – J is for Jarman

April 15, 2012 – 1:22 am

An Alphabet of Poets – J is for Jarman from THE WORD “ANSWER” With this prayer I am making up a God On a gray day, prophesying snow. I pray that God be immanent as snow When it has fallen thickly, a deep God. With this prayer I am making up a God Who answers […]

By Richard Osler | Posted in Poetry | Also tagged , | Comments (2)