Writing
BOOK
The Yearning Life: Poems. Paraclete Press, 2016.
ESSAYS
“Pattern, Time, Gift: Quiltmaking as Spiritual Restoration.” Geez no. 67 (“Craft at the End of the World”), Winter 2023.
“Where Is the Christian Simplicity Movement?” Earth&Altar, June 2020.
POEMS
“Epithalamion for a Monk,” EcoTheo Review (Spring 2022).
“Ancestors,” Paterson Literary Review 47 (2019): 81.
“Midnight Bus from New York City with Thomas Traherne,” Anglican Theological Review 99:1 (Winter 2017): 82.
“The Lord Enclosed the Sea,” ARTS: The Arts in Religious & Theological Studies 27:3 (2016).
“The Yearning Life,” Spiritus 16:1 (Spring 2016): 117.
“Student Teacher,” “Autobiographical Poem,” Asheville Poetry Review 22:1 (2015): 195–196.
“Looking at Memling,” Scintilla: The Journal of the Vaughan Association 18 (2015): 154.
“Exemplum,” “On the Feast of Bernard of Clairvaux,” Scintilla: The Journal of the Vaughan Association 17 (2014): 59–60.
“Sleight,” Poetry East 71, 72, & 73 (2011): 17.
“The Slough,” Soundings East 33:1 (Spring/Summer 2011): 53.
SCHOLARLY ARTICLES
“The Identity of the Friend and the Role of Spiritual Direction in George Herbert’s ‘Love Unknown.’” George Herbert Journal 38: 1&2 (Fall 2014 & Spring 2015). Published Summer 2016.
“The Deaths of Macrina and Monica in Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Macrina and Augustine’s Confessions: The Female Philosopher and the Problem of Christian Grief.” In Nonna Verna Harrison and David G. Hunter, eds., Suffering and Evil in Early Christian Thought. Baker Academic, 2016.
“George Herbert and the ‘Dangerous’ Art of Preaching.” In Partridge, Cameron and Zachary Guiliano, eds., Preaching and the Theological Imagination. Studies in Episcopal and Anglican Theology. New York: Peter Lang, 2015.
“Liturgy at Little Gidding.” Studia Liturgica 43: 1 (2013): 133–154.
BOOK REVIEWS
Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert by John Drury. Anglican Theological Review 98: 2 (Spring 2016): 396–398.
Sacred Text—Sacred Space: Architectural, Spiritual and Literary Convergences in England and Wales edited by Joseph Sterrett and Peter Thomas. Anglican Theological Review 95: 4 (Fall 2013): 755–757.
Web of Friendship: Nicholas Ferrar and Little Gidding by Joyce Ransome. Anglican Theological Review 93: 4 (Fall 2011): 739–42.
EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Poetry Editor and Poetry Book Review Editor, Anglican Theological Review, August 2020 (Issue 103.1/Winter 2021)–present.
Sleight
Before it was a card trick, a disappeared
Quarter reborn from unsuspecting ear,
Sleight meant skill—
Not the magician’s sticky fingers but
The steady hand of the archer
Bracing, drawing, releasing
The slender body with its
Barbed tongue, killing shank,
Its fletching, man-made wing
In measured flight, gentle arc reenacting
The intimacy of bow and arrow—
How the bow, over years,
Bends toward the string, spine
Curved in to its beloved,
Loosed and lost, again and again—
Sometimes retrieved unbroke and bloody,
Sometimes settling in the forest’s gullet.
The practice of sighting right—
Dexterous harmony of tensions,
Silent music of the hand and eye.
True aim, water-clear, the pulse of it,
Distance encapsuled, speed matching speed.
But the years are freighted with human suspicion:
Craft turns crafty, art sours
To artifice, tricks and cleverness,
To beguiled applause instead of
A shaft through the heart.
© Regina L. Walton. Originally published in Poetry East, “Sleight” appears in The Yearning Life (Paraclete Press, 2016).