2026 Conference Schedule

Daily news reports and think pieces describe how institutions are under attack and how things that were once considered sacred are no longer revered. The profane seems to be threatening both secular and religious ideals ranging from habeas corpus to empathy. For as long as we’ve had notions of the sacred, we’ve turned to poetry to help us find and define it. In this panel, poets from multiple religious and secular perspectives will discuss how their work connects to the sacred.