Listen to Richard Collins read “Wind Flows Over Stone Nest Dojo” from Shō No. 4 (Winter 2023/24).
Richard Collins is the Abbot of the New Orleans Zen Temple and lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, where he directs Stone Nest Zen Dojo. He has taught at universities in Romania, Bulgaria, and Wales, as well as Louisiana (where he was editor of Xavier Review) and California (where he is Dean Emeritus of Arts and Humanities). His recent poetry has appeared in BarBar, Clockhouse, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Marrow, Pensive, Think, The Plenitudes, Shō Poetry Journal, Urthona: Buddhism and the Arts, and Willows Wept Review. His books include No Fear Zen (Hohm Press, 2015) and, most recently, In Search of the Hermaphrodite: A Memoir (Tough Poets Press, 2024) and two forthcoming volumes of poetry: Stone Nest (Shanti Arts) and Cartoons for the Chaos (Shanti Arts).