Open AccessSymeon: The Light Of The Spirit
Author(s) -
Dan Rifenburgh
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
methodist debakey cardiovascular journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.552
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1947-6094
pISSN - 1947-6108
DOI - 10.14797/mdcj-13-3-174
Subject(s) - poetry , medicine , byzantine architecture , outreach , classics , literature , law , art , political science
Dan Rifenburgh is an award-winning Houston poet who earned an MA from the University of Florida, where he studied with Donald Justice, a well-known 20th-century poet and teacher. He has published two books of poems and now devotes his time to writing and teaching with an emphasis on outreach poetry workshops for veterans. "Symeon: The Light Of The Spirit" first appeared in Peacock Journal and refers to Symeon, the New Theologian, an 11th-century Byzantine Christian monk and poet.