The homepage of writer, artist, and priest Karl Stevens.
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I am an Episcopal Priest, an artist, and a writer who lives in Columbus, Ohio. I serve as the Rector of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, on the Ohio State University Campus. I am a Contemplative Christian, and that tradition is reflected in my art and writing. As an artist, I am very influenced by Medieval manuscript art, and by the Rothschild Canticles in particular. If you are interested in purchasing any of the art presented on this site, please send me an email.
Here’s the brief illumination on the second poem that As Surely as the Sun Literary Journal published on August 4th. Follow this link to read all three poems in full. How much of our annoyance with each other, our bitterness, our complaint and silent suffering, is due to busyness? Every great story has some element…
I have just had three poems published in As Surely As the Sun Literary Journal. You can read them by following this link. I’m going to publish commentaries on each of them in the next three weeks, starting today. Sometimes I simply want to be inside of a story as if I were inside of…
My poem, “The Birth of Longing,” has just been published in Braided Way, a wonderful online journal. You can link to the poem here. I wrote a very short essay on it years ago, which I offer below. Illumination of “The Birth of Longing” When I was seventeen, I found myself in the John Muir…
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