My Writings
Thoughts on Spirituality
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John Robert Colombo's Selected Quotes from my Work
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Shakespeare on Politics: How the Bard understood what makes Trump tick
Originally published in the Hamilton Spectator, August 29, 2019.
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The Religious Imagination
Excerpt from The Glass Art of Sarah Hall
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Notes on Wayne Allan's Sculpture
Originally pubished in Grail, Volume 10, Issue 4
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Ted Rettig's Stones
Originally published in Grail, Volume 14, Issue 2
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Thomas Merton as Public Intellectual
From a talk given at the Canadian Memorial United Church, Vancouver, on January 20, 2003 to the Thomas Merton Society of Canada
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Who's Gonna Take Away His License to Kill?
Originally published in the Hamilton Spectator, May 27, 2003
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How I Fell in Love With Japan
Originally published in the Hamilton Spectator, Saturday, April 26, 2003.
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The Wind Makes Ireland an Enchanting Place
Originally published in the Hamilton Spectator, February 15, 2003.
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These are Strange Days We're Living In
Originally published in the Hamilton Spectator, Wednesday, October 16, 2002.
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The Ruins of His Mind
Originally published in the Hamilton Spectator, September 28, 2001
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Tossing and Turning
Originally published in the Globe and Mail, Friday, October 22, 1999.
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Meditation on Stone (Edward Gibney)
Originally Published in Grail, Volume 13, Issue 1, March 1997
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An Interview with B.W. Powe
Originally published in Grail, Volume 13, Issue 1, March 1997
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Farewell to a Monk
Originally published in the Antigonish Review, #108, Winter 1997
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Monk Dreaming the World
Originally published in Brick, #55, Fall 1996
Book Reviews
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The Strength of Hyphens: Mary Gordon on Thomas Merton
Originally Published in Dialogue Magazine, Volume 32-4, Summer 2019
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Rave Review for B.W. Powe's "the charge in the global membrane" by J.S. Porter
First published in Hamilton Arts & Letters, June 11, 2019
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The Divine and Embodied Feminine: a Dialogue
Originally published in Works and Conversations, January 18, 2018
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There's Someone You Need to Meet -- Dorothy Day
Originally Published in Dialogue Magazine, Summer 2018
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Book Review: B.W. Powe, Where Seas and Fables Meet: Parables, Aphorisms, Fragments, Thought (Toronto: Guernica, 2015)
Originally published in Guernica Editions, May 5, 2015
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CBC's Canada Reads - What's Missing?
Originally published in the Nancy Duffy Show, January 30, 2014
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Duras
Originally published in Hamilton Arts & Letters, Spring/Summer 2011
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Hemingway: A Maker of Small, Fragile Things
Originally published in Hamilton Arts & Letters, Issue 3.1, Spring 2010
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Alberto in Storyland
Originally published The Globe and Mail, October 20, 2007
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Poets as proseurs
Originally published in the Globe and Mail, August 18, 2007
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A Canadian visionary: a new book digs into the influences on Grant's thought.
Originally published in Literary Review of Canada, 2007
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Only interconnect . . .
Originally published the Globe and Mail, February 18, 2006
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The Saintly Muse (Leonard Cohen, Allan Greer)
Originally published in the October 2005 edition of The Literary Review of Canada
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Moving Targets (Margaret Atwood)
Originally published in The Globe and Mail, Saturday, October 2, 2004.
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The Left Bank of Montreal (Brian Moore, Mordecai Richler, William Weintraub & Joel Yanofsky)
Originally published in the Literary Review of Canada, Vol 12, #2, 2004
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Requiem for a Suicidal Genius (Gordon Sheppard & HA!)
Originally published in the Literary Review of Canada, Vol 11, #8, 2003
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On Re-Reading Henry James in the Late Afternoon of my Life (Henry James)
Originally published in The Hamilton Spectator, December 17, 2002
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In 1850, the American Republic takes a wrong turn
Originally published in The Hamilton Spectator, Wednesday, April 10, 2002
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Atwood, light and dark (Margaret Atwood)
Originally published in The Globe and Mail, Saturday, March 23, 2002.
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On Going to Hear Mavis Gallant (Mavis Gallant)
Originally published in the Hamilton Spectator, September 3, 1999.
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The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture (Robert Fulford)
Originally published in the Ottawa Citizen, February 12, 1999.
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At Play in the Land of Language (Dennis Lee)
Originally publiished in the Globe and Mail, Saturday, October 17, 1998.
Poems and Reflections
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Making a Mark
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Saudade
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Joy
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Thomas Merton, Superabundantly Alive (Article)
Originally Appeared in Hamilton Arts and Letters, 2010
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Muriel Rukeyser: In each word, a storm (Article)
Originally appeared in Hamilton Arts and Letters, 2010
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Stone Skips (poem)
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Wordways (meditation)
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Words From the Chief (poem)
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...from The Thomas Merton Poems, Moonstone Press, 1988
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Cheryl (poem)
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One Word (poem)
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Word II (and other poems)
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Raking Leaves (poem & comment)
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Our Lady of the Stars (poem)
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Reading Woundedly (poem)
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Reading Poetry By Heart (article)
Originally pubished in the Ottawa Citizen, September 19, 1999.
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Making a Sentence (Article)
Originally published by Indirections, Vol. 17, No. 3, September, 1992
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Words I
Originally published in Canadian Literature, Fall 1986
Pound of Flesh
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Waiting & Longing
Aug 6, 2005
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Strange, Stranger
Jun 3, 2005
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Raiding the Arts for Poems
May 1, 2005
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Big Books/Little Books
Mar 3, 2005
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Why I Turn to Thomas Merton
Feb 6, 2005
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Story
Jan 5, 2005
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The UnPi-ing of Pi*
Nov 1, 2004
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Awakenings
Oct 6, 2004
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Why Read?
Sep 5, 2004
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Prayer
Aug 4, 2004
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Where Poets Were Kings: An Appreciation of Michael Ondaatje's Handwriting
Jul 1, 2004
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Ararat
Jun 1, 2004
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Emmylou Harris: A Story in a Song
May 1, 2004
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The Search For My Word
Apr 1, 2004
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Talking to Strangers
Mar 14, 2004