Poetry and Faith Reading Series: Peter O'Leary

Join poet and scholar Peter O’Leary for a reading and talk on what it has meant over the past thirty-five years for him to have been both Catholic and poet, considering both in the way faith and art have placed him in the order of signs.

By his own admission, Peter O’Leary writes “obscure religious poetry,” reflecting vocations to both religion and literature that have committed him to what St. Bonaventure called the “journey of the mind to God.” He received a doctorate from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, and he has written several books, most recently The Hidden Eyes of Things, a book-length poem about the unconscious, and Thick and Dazzling Darkness: Religious Poetry in a Secular Age, a critical study of modern and contemporary religious poets. In addition to serving as a lector and catechist, he teaches courses in religion and literature at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He lives in Oak Park and edits Verge Books, a small poetry press.

Part of St. Gregory's Hall's "Poetry and Faith Reading Series"