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JEFFREY ROBINSON is a Boston, Massachusetts-based writer and storyteller of fiction and poetry. He also writes for the screen, and some of his screenplays have been optioned by Hollywood producers. Divine Office, his debut chapbook of poetry, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.
He regularly participates in the Moth storySLAMS, and other poetry slams and open-mics across New England. He’s currently at work on his novel and short story collection.
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Divine Office
Poems
Coming January 2027 from Finishing Line Press
How do we show up for humanity when the world is so fraught and tense?
What if prayer involves paying attention to the hours of our lives?
Where do we find hope that the light will overcome the darkness?
Structured around the arc of a single day, Divine Office reimagines a religious framework – the eight canonical hours of prayer – as a contemporary meditation on time, work, memory, and humanity.
Across thirty-two sonnets, Jeffrey Robinson tracks the small but meaningful moments that fill our days with a bold call to action: we must witness for justice and peace, which begins with pause and reflection on who we are and how we can best serve the world.
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Praise for Divine Office
“There is so much life and hope to be shared in these sonnets. Divine Office speaks to the depths of life. For me, Robinson’s poetry brings back a feeling of peace and hope for the world, and this work will do the same for all readers.”
— Sister John Michelle Southwick, IHM, Counselor at Marywood University
“In Robinson's formally and lovingly conceived collection of sonnets, Divine Office, the golden thread of connection remains uncut in spite of living in such a troubling world as ours. Grounded in the poetic conceits of the metaphysical poets, Robinson's contemporary voice resounds with reminders that grace can be found through our attentive relationships to one another, and what we've created.”
— Deborah Schwartz, author of Wind of the House, Voice of the Stream, of the Dream That You Dream, While We Turn You Around
“Divine Office is a stunningly poignant and sequence of poems that offer balm for the soul, whispered prayers, incantations, invocation, and a fearless call to action in an inner and outer world that seeks repair – and yet these lyrical sonnets offer solace, reassurance, and a reminder to gather rosebuds, to not go gentle, to ease our mind, and savor the sweetness of grace.”
— Susan Campbell Bartoletti, author of The Book of Bee: A Story of Great Peril and Stout Hearts
“Two historical structures – the canonical hours and the sonnet – play off each other in these beautifully wrought poems. Though each section opens with a prayer, Robinson uses more contemporary language to explore the contrasts between darkness and light, doubt and courage. Part meditation, part manifesto for social justice, this cycle of poems ends up in a hopeful place: “The world is dark, and yet the dark can’t stay – Not while the light keeps finding out a way.” Glory in discovering how traditional religious and literary forms speak to our modern world.”
— Clara Silverstein, author of Above the Fall Line
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