Mark Burrows
Rev. Mark S. Burrows, Ph.D., is much sought-after as a retreat leader and speaker on spirituality and mysticism, poetry and the arts. In 2021, he founded and continues to lead a popular online program, “the Julian Circle,” that encourages participants to live into the wholistic wisdom of Julian’s “showings.” A teacher, scholar and award-winning poet and translator of German poetry, his recent books include Meister Eckhart’s Book of Darkness and Light and You Are the Future: Living the Questions with Rainer Maria Rilke (2024). A member of the Iona Community, he lives and writes in Camden, ME. Visit his website at www.soul-in-sight.org.
Upcoming Programs by Mark Burrows
Wonderment: Elder Poets as Mentors Amid Life’s Mysteries
Join us for an evening to explore the wisdom of poets in their "ripening" years. We'll explore poems that invite us into more heartful living, poems that have the power to awaken our sense of wonder to the ordinary miracles that always surround us. Why not "risk enchantment," as one of them suggests? Why not […]
Ripening in Wisdom with Elder Poets
This retreat introduces poems written later in life by a gathering of contemporary poets. They are sages who invite us into more spacious ways of living than we might otherwise imagine. Their vision invites us into “an energetic space that begets energetic space” (J. Winterson). Their gifts of wisdom, borne of long experience and heartful […]