Award-Winning Poet Tony Abbott Presents Lecture Series on Donne and Hopkins

"Poetry as Prayer, Prayer as Poetry:  The Struggle for Faith in the Poems of John Donne and Gerard Manley Hopkins". That's the title of a fascinating new lecture series going on next month at Centenary United Methodist Church in Winston-Salem.

Award-winning poet and novelist Anthony S. Abbott will explore the extraordinary lives of these two poet priests, and look at how each used poetry to express their deep spiritual needs to God. 

Anthony S. Abbott is the author of five books of poetry, including the Pulitzer nominated The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat. Tony's lecture series at Centenary United Methodist Church will be four of the five Tuesday evenings at Centenary, free and open to the public.

Tony begins each session by reciting a poem, like the one you'll hear in today's show by John Donne.