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

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Questions So Simple, Answers So Far Beyond, David Schelhaas

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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

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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 …

Pollen On Your Nose, Calvin Seerveld

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Maximillian Sunflowers, David Schelhaas

The Voice

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Mars Rover, The Power Of The Particular, And Love, Aleisa Dornbierer-Schat

Staff Work

"Poetry appeals to, and enlarges, our human capacity to know something deeply and, in that way, to love it."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­reasons to value 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/the-mars-rover-the-power-of-the-particular-and-love/

Walk Through The Poem: "Believing Green" By Christian Wiman, Shelbi Gesch

Student Work

"There’s magic in the sound and the rhythm of Wiman’s lines."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­Christian Wiman'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/a-walk-through-the-poem-believing-green-by-christian-wiman/

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

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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/

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/

Robert Frost's "Irresistible Impossibility", David Schelhaas

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