The poet Scott Cairns’s written pilgrimage picks up with his new collection, Anaphora. An Eastern Orthodox Christian whose 17 books range from a memoir about his search for a confessor on Mount Athos ...
Any spark which ignites, becomes a song, a painting, a perfect sentence, needs air to flourish — to exist at all. Scott Cairns has kindled the warm, baritone fires of poetry for decades; and in his ...
Cairns's warm, calm, personal tones win him respect in many quarters, but his core audience comes from his subject matter: the mysteries, consolations and consequences of Christian belief. Questions ...
Eastern Orthodox poet Scott Cairns reflects on his new collection, his journey of faith, and poetry’s capacity to apprehend inexhaustible realities. Fans of the Harry Potter series might recall the ...
At a time when some Westerners are rediscovering the theological riches of the Christian East, others scratch their heads at Orthodoxy, bewildered by a tradition laden with monks, Mary and icons, yet ...
we raise our heads, and do not shirk, obliged to sing. Scott Cairns is the Director of Seattle Pacific University MFA in Creative Writing. Author of forthcoming Lacunae: New Poems (Paraclete Press, ...
The editor, D. S. Martin, explains that all the poems he has assembled in some way pause to “turn aside.” The anthology includes the work of many of the most significant English-speaking Christian ...
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