At Silver Door we believe that poetry with a capital P can once again become a major cultural force.
This will require hordes of poets to act as servants of the Beautiful for their communities.
The poets Nathan Woods and J.Z Schafer comprise the Silver Door team. We are both deeply indebted to and grateful for the incredible, jeweled sweep, breadth and depth of feeling, imagination and beauty of English language poetry that stretches back centuries, and as the Academy and the general social milieu continue to crumble we desire to see that tradition continue.
We are also Orthodox Christians, and while recognizing the ubiquity of digital technology, understand that when it comes to building a new artistic culture an embodied, incarnational approach is not only preferable, but essential.
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