Jacob Riyeff

Jacob Riyeff teaches in the English department at Marquette University. His books include In the Bosom of the Father, the first English translation of the Benedictine monk Swami Abhishiktananda’s collected poems, and his first poetry collection, Sunk in Your Shipwreck. Jacob is a Benedictine oblate and lives in Milwaukee, WI.

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Sacred Spaces

The Late Woodland peoples understood the interweaving of the natural landscape with the divine. A visit to Wisconsin’s Man Mound helped me see it.
By Jacob Riyeff
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