“Poetry is both deeply personal and profoundly communal. As in prayer, a personal encounter can open us to a universal awareness. While the contemplative dimension of poetry invites us to slow down and reflect on our own experience, it also opens us to what we might share with others. In this solitary practice we find companionship. In the engagement with poetry we find connection.
“As you read [poems], feel what it means to seek, to desire, to doubt, to enter into solitude, to feel sorrow, to be held, and to love. Allow yourself to take a prayerful leap from the words on the page into the thoughts and desires of your own heart, then reach into the wholeness
of our shared humanity.”
— Colette Lafia
