“While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.” –Billy Collins
Michael McCarthy is, in his words, “a lifelong explorer of the sacred.” Through a deepening poetic lens, he seeks beauty in the commonplace. The ordinary is truly extraordinary. Michael, a husband, father, and high school teacher of religion, lives on Long Island in New York. He has degrees in theology and psychology.
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Books by This Author
The Ways of Grace: A Book of Poems
by Michael McCarthy"Expect loss and know that / tender eyes moisten / setting free / teardrops of humanity." This is just one of the many powerful verses in this meditation on the beauty and grace found in the commonplace. From the loss of love, to a single, yellow flower screaming out to be seen, to the deepness of a tree's roots, McCarthy challenges us to take time to notice the beauty, pain, immensity, and love in the very small moments of our lives. Read this collection of poems and you will want to notice more.