Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/11/2024
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Location
4010 JFSB
Category(ies)
This year’s Faith & Imagination Lecture features poet Laura Reece Hogan on Friday, October 11. Laura will present a poetry reading at 12-12:50 in the HBLL auditorium as part of the English Reading Series. Later that afternoon, the Faith & Imagination Lecture will be held at 3:00 pm in 4010 JFSB. This event will blend her lecture with a personal poetry reading to reflect on God’s transformative purposes in our lives despite challenges. We hope you’ll join us for one or both of these presentations.
12-12:50 pm in the HBLL auditorium – Poetry reading
Title: “From Backyard to Cosmos: A Poetry Reading by Laura Reece Hogan”
Laura Reece Hogan will read poems from her collections Litany of Flights and Butterfly Nebula that center on intersections of the physical universe and the divine, from the backyard to the cosmos.
3:00 pm in 4010 JFSB – Faith & Imagination Lecture & Poetry Reading
Title: “What God Touches, God Transforms: Theology and Poetry of Divine Unfolding”
Laura Reece Hogan will share concepts from her book I Live, No Longer I about the Apostle Paul’s spirituality of suffering, transformation, and joy. Whatever is happening in our lives, or however the dark the circumstances appear, we can make use of Paul’s perspective on the effectiveness of God to accomplish his transformative purposes in and through us. Laura will consider this spiritual theology also in terms of how it has been expressed in her own poetry.
About our guest:
Laura Reece Hogan is the author of Butterfly Nebula (Backwaters, University of Nebraska Press, 2023), winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, Litany of Flights (Paraclete Press, 2020), winner of the Paraclete Poetry Prize, the chapbook O Garden-Dweller (Finishing Line Press), and the award-winning nonfiction spiritual theology book I Live, No Longer I (Wipf & Stock). A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, she is one of ten poets featured in the anthology In a Strange Land (Cascade Books) and serves on the executive board of Red Hen Press and the poetry advisory board of Wildhouse Press. Her essays have been published in venues such as The Unmooring, Ekstasis, and Spirituality, and her poems have appeared in Sugar House Review, Scientific American, RHINO, America, Connecticut River Review, Amsterdam Review, EcoTheo Review, Verse Daily and elsewhere.
