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Ten Years Ago I Wrote Poems About Having Babies, Rose Postma Jan 2023

Ten Years Ago I Wrote Poems About Having Babies, Rose Postma

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Questions So Simple, Answers So Far Beyond, David Schelhaas Feb 2022

Questions So Simple, Answers So Far Beyond, David Schelhaas

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Bountiful Garden Produce Inspires Poetry, David Schelhaas Oct 2021

Bountiful Garden Produce Inspires Poetry, David Schelhaas

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The Monsters And The Translators: An Apologia For The Study Of History, Walker Cosgrove Apr 2021

The Monsters And The Translators: An Apologia For The Study Of History, Walker Cosgrove

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No longer do we believe in monsters; we’ve reached a ripe old, disenchanted age. In the 21st century, we romance vampires, we train dragons, and we pacify Greek gods. In our enlightened state, we produce novels and films that offer the perspective of the monsters in an attempt to help us understand them and make them seem less monstrous. Yet, we continue to demonize, and the monstrous survives in the “other” with whom we disagree, fueled, no doubt, by our highly politicized society today. It appears we’ve learned nothing in our enlightened disenchantment. I want to consider here one such …


Haunted By The Father: The Poetry Of Li-Young Lee, Howard Schaap Apr 2017

Haunted By The Father: The Poetry Of Li-Young Lee, Howard Schaap

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"In Lee’s poetry I find myself sharing the experience of being a lost son in a father’s world."

Posting about Li-Young Lee's poetry from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

http://inallthings.org/haunted-by-the-father-the-poetry-of-li-young-lee/


Stained Forever By A Sanguine Glow, David Schelhaas Apr 2017

Stained Forever By A Sanguine Glow, David Schelhaas

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"It is National Poetry Month and I want to celebrate the month with a little essay about the poet Richard Wilbur and his poem 'October Maples.'"

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the delight in Richard Wilbur's poetry from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

http://inallthings.org/stained-forever-by-a-sanguine-glow/


Email From A Young Poet, Howard Schaap Mar 2017

Email From A Young Poet, Howard Schaap

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The Incarnational Point Of View, Howard Schaap Dec 2016

The Incarnational Point Of View, Howard Schaap

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Become A Believer, Howard Schaap Nov 2016

Become A Believer, Howard Schaap

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Surprise, Howard Schaap Oct 2016

Surprise, Howard Schaap

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Behold The Power Of Gesture, Howard Schaap Sep 2016

Behold The Power Of Gesture, Howard Schaap

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Precision, Howard Schaap Jul 2016

Precision, Howard Schaap

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Somewhere Between Tom Brokaw And The Misfit, Howard Schaap Feb 2016

Somewhere Between Tom Brokaw And The Misfit, Howard Schaap

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Distillation, Howard Schaap Dec 2015

Distillation, Howard Schaap

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Exteriority, Howard Schaap Nov 2015

Exteriority, Howard Schaap

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Or Does It Explode?, Howard Schaap Sep 2014

Or Does It Explode?, Howard Schaap

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"How Langston Hughes' poem “Harlem” still gives us a lens through which to understand racial relations in America."

Posting about poetry, Ferguson, Missouri, and race relations from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/or-does-it-explode/


Contentious Conversations, Leah A. Zuidema Sep 2011

Contentious Conversations, Leah A. Zuidema

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The idea of joining a conversation through reading and writing is not new; in his 1941 book "The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action," Kenneth Burke suggests that the acts of reading and writing are like entering a parlor where others are already conversing. The author explores the place of professional debate within NCTE and in the pages of "English Journal". Regardless, by reading these pages, one is entering into a conversation that is already underway.


Nightmare Of Christmas, James C. Schaap Dec 2009

Nightmare Of Christmas, James C. Schaap

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A short story on Christmas, faith, and family fellowship.