Category Archives: poetry

Other Artist Friends, pt. 1

Posted on November 9, 2008 by susanmsink@gmail.com

I want to post links to the work of two other artist friends who are very dear to me. One, Susan Mastrangelo, lives in Brooklyn and teaches art at The Buckley School on the Upper East Side. She has made … Continue reading →

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Phillies Win!

Posted on October 30, 2008 by susanmsink@gmail.com

I was happy to see the Phillies win in front of that tough crowd last night. (I mean, when Tampa Bay hit that homerun to tie it up in the 7th, the silence was eerie. I didn’t see the homerun … Continue reading →

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Thomas Carey, OSB

Posted on October 22, 2008 by susanmsink@gmail.com

These past two days as communications director at St. Benedict’s monastery I’ve gotten a crash course in Sister Thomas Carey, a painter and Sister of this monastery who died in 1999. Her work is amazing, and I was familiar with … Continue reading →

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Season of Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness

Posted on October 16, 2008 by susanmsink@gmail.com

Every morning for about six weeks I’ve been waking up to Fall. It’s been a lovely, glorious fall, and the landscape has been straight out of Keats’ ode”To Autumn.” When in graduate school at Sarah Lawrence getting my MFA back … Continue reading →

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How I Got Here

Posted on October 9, 2008 by susanmsink@gmail.com

I came to Minnesota to spend an academic year at the Collegeville Institue for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, because I had to get out of Southern California, and because I was working on a memoir, and it was the story … Continue reading →

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