

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Poetic Contemplation and the Divinity Within
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 28 Mar, 2026 at 08:00 am – Sat, 28 Mar, 2026 at 04:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: On March 28, you'll have a very special opportunity to listen in on a conversation between carpenter-priest (and Holy Wisdom Sunday Assembly member) William Beers and philosopher-poet John Koethe. Reflecting on poems from John's book of poems, Cemeteries and Galaxies (2025, Farrar, Straus, Giroux), the two will explore the meanings of being human in the contemporary world and invite you to contemplate with them how meaning is created in imagination, memory, and mourning.

This thin volume of John Koethe's poems was reviewed in the New York Times last summer in an article titled, "A Philosopher Who Uses Poetry to Ask What Life Is All About." (You can search for it on the NYT website.) 

Here's a small taste from the poem, "The Entertainer":

"I want it to be funny and I want it to be real. 
I want it to resemble how life feels without the details
And distractions, with a sense of what I am that could be anyone's
And makes you what you are and makes me me. I see myself
From very far away and then from where I am, and the sense of life I have
Is of the interplay between them, which isn’t a real sense of life at all."  

Treat yourself to a day immersed in beauty and imagination, rich conversation, and the opportunity to deepen your contemplative awareness of the world and the divinity within.

Learn more &amp; register: https://holywisdommonastery.org/event/poetic-contemplation-26/
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/middleton/poetic-contemplation-and-the-divinity-within/200029611405414
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 9

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://holywisdommonastery.org/event/poetic-contemplation-26/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=middleton-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Middleton
- **state**: WI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53562
- **lat**: 43.12098
- **long**: -89.45437
- **full address**: 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53562

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Holy Wisdom Monastery (https://allevents.in/org/holy-wisdom-monastery/2614472)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 28 Mar, 2026 at 08:00 am (-05:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53562
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Holy Wisdom Monastery
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Poetic Contemplation and the Divinity Within ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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