Peter O’Leary was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1968. Though he has
lived for extended stays in Portland, Vienna, St. Louis, and Budapest, the
bulk of his life has been lived alongside the Great Lakes and their
waterways: the Detroit River, Lake St. Clair, the St. Clair River, and Lake
Michigan. His books include Watchfulness, A Mystical Theology of the
Limbic Fissure, Depth Theology, Wren/Omen, and Benedicite. In 2010,
the Cultural Society published his third full-length book, Luminous
Epinoia. He lives in Berwyn, Illinois and teaches at the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago and for the Committee on Creative Writing at the
University of Chicago. Vocations to poetry and religion have committed
him to the pursuit of what St. Bonaventure named an itinerarium mentis
in deum, or the journey of the mind to God, with particular attention
devoted to the mystagogical-initiatic and the mytho-poetical.
e-mail me: peter [at] luxhominem [dot] com
lived for extended stays in Portland, Vienna, St. Louis, and Budapest, the
bulk of his life has been lived alongside the Great Lakes and their
waterways: the Detroit River, Lake St. Clair, the St. Clair River, and Lake
Michigan. His books include Watchfulness, A Mystical Theology of the
Limbic Fissure, Depth Theology, Wren/Omen, and Benedicite. In 2010,
the Cultural Society published his third full-length book, Luminous
Epinoia. He lives in Berwyn, Illinois and teaches at the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago and for the Committee on Creative Writing at the
University of Chicago. Vocations to poetry and religion have committed
him to the pursuit of what St. Bonaventure named an itinerarium mentis
in deum, or the journey of the mind to God, with particular attention
devoted to the mystagogical-initiatic and the mytho-poetical.
e-mail me: peter [at] luxhominem [dot] com
April 2007, in Chicago, @ the Spare Room,
photo by Eirik Steinhoff
photo by Eirik Steinhoff