A Series of Poems from El Retiro
By: Christine Rodgers, 2008, 2009, 2010
Christine Rodgers, Actor & Poet
Christine Rodgers
The Jesuit Retreat Center is pleased to present A Series of Poems from El Retiro, reflections written by Christine Rodgers during an 8-Day Retreat at JRC Los Altos and subsequent visits.
Christine Rodgers is an actor and poet living in San Francisco. Her poetry has appeared in the National Catholic Reporter, Radical Grace, and America Magazine and on a variety of websites including The Witness, Poets Against the War and Grace Cathedral. In 2000 she appeared as a panelist in The Forum at Grace Cathedral entitled The Creative Spirit in Poetry — with Francisco X. Alarcon, Judy Grahn and Dean Alan Jones. Her poems have also been used in a number of retreat centers, and some are still floating around Africa. She published her first collection of poems, Into the Great Green Heart of God, in 2005.