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2026 Festival of Faith and Writing has ended
Friday April 17, 2026 4:00pm - 4:45pm EDT
How might artistic practices invoke the qualities of prayer? By extension, is it possible to articulate a poetics of the sacred? In this session, Patrick Rosal explores his complex relationship to prayer, the sacred, and a secular artistic practice, sharing how he was influenced by his relationship with his father, who was a priest and theologian trained in the Thomist tradition.

Book signing follows in the Prince Conference Center, Fireside Room
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Patrick Rosal

Patrick Rosal is the author of The Last Thing and has been published in The New York Times, The Nation, Best American Poetry and elsewhere. A Guggenheim and NEA Fellow, he is a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers-Camden. His mother and father immigrated from the Philippines and met in the U.S., while his father was still a Catholic priest and theologian in the Thomist tradition... Read More →
Friday April 17, 2026 4:00pm - 4:45pm EDT
Prince Conference Center, Board Room

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