Podcasts about idiot psalms

Episode 9 of Rewrite Radio features a conversation between four writers in the Eastern Orthodox religious tradition about the deep poetry and lasting peace that liturgy offers. Scott Cairns, Angela Doll Carlson, Gaelan Gilbert, and Cameron Alexander Lawrence reflect on Orthodoxy and how it can clear a pathway through the slings and arrows of modern life. Scott Cairns’s poems and essays have appeared many publications including The Paris Review, The Atlantic, and IMAGE Journal. His newest poetry collection is IDIOT PSALMS and he’s recently been appointed program director of the MFA program at Seattle Pacific University: http://spu.edu/prospects/grad/academics/mfa/index.asp Angela Doll Carlson is a poet, essayist and fiction writer. She’s the author of two books, NEARLY ORTHODOX: ON BEING A MODERN WOMAN IN AN ANCIENT TRADITION and GARDEN IN THE EAST: THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF THE BODY. Learn more at her website: http://www.angeladollcarlson.com Gaelan Gilbert is an assistant professor of English at St. Katherine College and the managing editor of the St. Katherine Review: http://www.stkathreview.org Cameron Alexander Lawrence is a poet, whose work has appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Exit 7, IMAGE Journal, and Rock and Sling. Learn more at his website: http://www.cameronlawrence.com

Bobby Maddex interviews renowned Orthodox poet Scott Cairns about his new collection of poetry Idiot Psalms.

Bobby Maddex interviews renowned Orthodox poet Scott Cairns about his new collection of poetry Idiot Psalms.

Scott Cairns is a professor of English at the University of Missouri. He is also director of MU Writing Workshops in Greece, a program that brings graduate and undergraduate students to Thessaloniki and Thasos every June for intensive engagement with literary life in modern Greece. His poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Image, Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, etc., and both have been anthologized in multiple editions of Best American Spiritual Writing. His most recent poetry collection is Compass of Affection. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006, and is completing work on a new poetry collection, Idiot Psalms, and a translation of selections from The Philokalia under the title Descent to the Heart. His memoir will be released in a new edition called Slow Pilgrim in 2014.

Cairns, poet and essayist, reads at Duke Divinity School from selected works, including "Recovered Body," "Compass of Affection," and a soon-to-be-published collection, "Idiot Psalms." A brief audience Q&A follows, with the reading of a final poem.