Podcast appearances and mentions of spencer reece

Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20 Psalm 19 Philippians 3:4b-14 Matthew 21:33-46

This episode we are chatting with the Rev. Spencer Reece from St. Paul's in Wickford RI. His bumper sticker is "God is coming and boy is she pissed" You can connect with Father Reece on instagram @ and Facebook through the St. Paul's Wickford Facebook Page

Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15 Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16 1 Timothy 6:6-19 Luke 16:19-31

Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 Psalm 79:1-9 1 Timothy 2:1-7 Luke 16:1-13

Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28 Psalm 14 1 Timothy 1:12-17 Luke 15:1-10

Jeremiah 18:1-11 Psalm 139:1-5, 12-17 Philemon 1-21 Luke 14:25-33

Spencer Reece is the author of The Clerk's Tale and The Road to Emmaus, long-listed for the National Book Award. In 2017 he edited, Counting Time Like People Count Stars: Poetry by the Girls of Our Little Roses. The Secret Gospel of Mark: A Poet's Memoir and All The Beauty Still Left: A Poet's Painted Book of Hours arrived in 2021. He has worked as an Episcopal priest in Honduras, Spain, and New York City. Copyright © 2022 by Spencer Reece. Originally published on Queer Poem-a-Day, June 2022. Text of today's poem and more details about our program can be found at: deerfieldlibrary.org/queerpoemaday/ Find books from participating poets in our library's catalog.  Queer Poem-a-Day is directed by poet and teacher Lisa Hiton and Dylan Zavagno, Adult Services Coordinator at the Deerfield Public Library. Music for this second year of our series is the first movement, Schéhérazade, from Masques, Op. 34, by Karol Szymanowski, performed by pianist Daniel Baer. Queer Poem-a-Day is supported by generous donations from the Friends of the Deerfield Public Library and the Deerfield Fine Arts Commission. Queer Poem-a-Day is a program from the Adult Services Department at the Library and may include adult language.

Today's reflection is by Spencer Reece, an essay entitled "The Little Entrance." It appears in Common Prayer.Thank you for joining us today.You can find out more about the Rev. Spencer Reece at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/spencer-reece. You can find an interview with him about his memoir published in 2021 at https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/03/16/poems-are-spiritual-suitcases-an-interview-with-spencer-reece/.Find out more about Common Prayer at https://wipfandstock.com/9781532654220/common-prayer/

The Stranger & the Road The day before Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech to a quarter-million onlookers from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the poet Spencer Reece was born. Spencer is the author of “The Clerk's Tale” and “The Road to Emmaus.” The documentary “Voices Beyond the Wall” chronicles […]

Poet and priest Spencer Reece on his cousin's murder, the AIDS epidemic, and bearing witness to a moment.

Both priest and poet have one vocation: to love. Few know that as well as Spencer Reece—an accomplished poet, former chaplain to the Episcopal Bishop of Madrid, and now the leader of a diverse parish in Queens, NY. In conversation with Commonweal contributing writer Anthony Domestico, in this episode Reece speaks about his new memoir, The Secret Gospel of Mark. For further reading: ·     Celebration & Lamentation, Anthony Domestico ·     Uncommon Prayers, Spencer Reece

What's good, baby. We're back for the second part of our conversation with esteemed Tommye Blount. For us today, Tommy brought Spencer Reece's "Interlude," a short poem that imagines, does, asks so, so much. TOMMYE BLOUNTE grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College. He is the author of the poetry collection Fantasia for the Man in Blue (2020) and the chapbook What Are We Not For (2016). Blount has been awarded scholarships and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Cave Canem, and Kresge Arts. He lives in Novi, Michigan. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, and raised in Minneapolis, SPENCER REECE is the son of a pathologist and a nurse. He earned a BA at Wesleyan University, an MA at the University of York, an MTS at Harvard Divinity School, and an MDiv at Yale Divinity School. He was ordained in the Episcopal Church in 2011. Reece's debut collection of poetry, The Clerk's Tale(2004), was chosen for the Bakeless Poetry Prize by Louise Glück and adapted into a short film by director James Franco. He is also the author of the collection The Road to Emmaus (2013), which was a longlist nominee for the National Book Award.

In which Sarah, RJ, and Dave talk spite, ubiquitous burnout, chaplaincy booms, and our conflicted relationship with newness. Also, Dave marvels at how refreshed the cicadas are looking. Click here (https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/05/why-are-we-so-spiteful/618865/) to read Charlie Tyson's review in The Atlantic on Why Are We So Spiteful? Click here (https://vimeo.com/553832309) to watch Todd Brewer's talk on Anger ("If Jesus Had a Twitter Account") from our Tyler Conference. Click here (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/24/burnout-modern-affliction-or-human-condition) to read Jill Lepore's essay on Burnout in The New Yorker Click here (https://www.thecut.com/2021/05/quitting-your-job-as-self-care.html) to read Katie Heaney's piece on The Clock-Out Cure in The Cut Click here (https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/epnd8e/why-chaplains-are-in-high-demand-in-an-increasingly-secular-america) to read Vice's article on Why Chaplains Are in High Demand in an Increasingly Secular America Click here (https://mbird.com/2021/05/facing-the-strange/) to read Sam Bush's post on Facing the Strange Click here (https://mbird.com/2021/05/god-loves-a-cliche-i-hope/) to read Dave's post on Becoming a Cliché Recommendations: * Click here (https://amzn.to/3yA8Z0o) to order Spencer Reece's All the Beauty Still Left * Click here (https://open.spotify.com/album/1sp2pqP1wjFDoWhzUZikhg?si=bSLwQv1fQvSQjSq_4qU6Bw) to listen to Natalie Bergman's new album Mercy * Click here (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/arts/music/sinead-oconnor-rememberings.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab) to read the profile of Sinead O'Connor in the NY Times

In this episode, Spencer Reece guides us through a reading of "Christmas Tree," one of the last poems that James Merrill wrote before his death. We learned so much through this conversation--about the friendship between James Merrill and Spencer Reece, the rhetorical force of visual poems, and the emotional power of elegy during the AIDS pandemic as well as in our own moment. For the full text of "Christmas Tree," please see this page (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=39363) from the September 1995 issue of Poetry magazine. For more on James Merrill, please see this page (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/james-merrill) from the Poetry Foundation website. For more on Spencer Reece, please see this page (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/spencer-reece) from the Poetry Foundation website.

Poet Jennifer Zilm joins co-hosts Kevin Spenst and Pamela Bentley to read from her new book The Missing Field (Guernica Editions 2018), and talk about favourite words, poetic structures, tattoos, etymology, ephemera, texting, feelings in poems, and the meaning of "missing field."

Poet-priest Spencer Reece, joins us from Madrid, Spain, to share his poems. He also discusses the documentary, "Voices Beyond the Wall: 12 Love Poems from the Murder Capital of the World," that focuses on his year of using poetry to help abandoned and abused girls at the only girls’ orphanage in Hondurus. Spencer is also organizing the upcoming Unamuno Author Series, the first English-language reading series in Madrid. Find out more about the documentary here: http://www.voicesbeyondthewallmovie.com/ Find out more about Unamuno Author Series on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/UnamunoAuthors/about/?ref=page_internal Subscribe to Poetry Spoken Here on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/poetr…d1030829938?mt=2 Visit our website: poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Spencer Reece discusses classic and contemporary religious poems for this time of year.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Dan Clendenin. Essay by Dan Clendenin: *No Other Gospel* for Sunday, 22 May 2016; book review by Dan Clendenin: *The Road to Emmaus: Poems* by Spencer Reece (2014); film review by Dan Clendenin: *I Saw the Light* (2016); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Address to the Lord (5)* by John Berryman.