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David Mutschlecner

An extended bio from the author

I grew up in Bloomington, Indiana. I have a B.A. in English from Indiana University and an M.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. New Mexico has been my home for the last twenty years. I earn my bread in the grocery business; I feel the limits of this even as I write it. I suspect there is, for many of us, a fairly marked distinction between how we make a living and how we live in our hearts and minds. I like to think of vocation as a self-communication: what do we speak out into the world; what is it that our lives give expression to? Of course work cannot be divorced from this, but work is a small part of it; the circumscribing issue for me is poetry. My areas of interest make odd bedfellows: Thomist metaphysics voiced through Projectivism; the poets of the San Francisco Renaissance inscaped through Gerard Manley Hopkins; Roman Catholic theology expressed in contemporary art. Poetry as a breath of the Spirit goes where it wills. The free mind of the poet does the same.