This libguide is a joint project between the Center for Writing and Creative Expression and the Harrison Library. It launched on Wednesday, April 1, 2020 in celebration of National Poetry Month and is updated every spring. It is our hope the books on this list will offer beauty, diversion, food for thought, and inspiration. Have a poet or topic to suggest? Please email the librarians @ library@ssw.edu.
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Seminary of the Southwest is excited to announce that the speaker at the 72nd Commencement Exercises celebrating the Class of 2023 will be the award-winning poet Roger Reeves. Reeves is the author of King Me and the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and a 2015 Whiting Award, among other honors. His work has appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Jason Myers (DAS '21), serves as editor-in-chief of EcoTheo Review and co-director of EcoTheo Collective. A National Poetry Series finalist, he lives with his family on the lands of the Coahuiltecan peoples and is a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Texas. This is his first collection of poems. A Place for the Genuine: Reflections on Nature, Poetry, and Vocation will be published by Eerdmans in 2024.
At Southwest, we form ministers and counselors who are faithful, imaginative,
and able to communicate God’s healing presence through their words and
works. Open Book brings together the entire range of these expressions —
creative, reflective, scholarly, and contemplative — to celebrate each unique
offering and to witness collectively to our experience of God’s love in the world.
Soul by Southwest brings you the spring 2022 collection, "Nevertheless."