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John Leax: September 2004
John Leax—“Jack” to anyone who knows him—is a poet and creative nonfiction writer whose writing has many moods, from irony so dry you could towel off with it to a deep, almost Franciscan sense of nature as guide to the soul.
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Beth Bosworth: August 2004
Beth Bosworth has the knack for making you fall in love with ornery characters—bookworms, oddballs, prickly and eccentric folks. Never far from a sense of life's tragedy and loss, she nevertheless observes the world with a keen and earnest intelligence that by its very alertness, its very engagement, contains its own hard-edged joy.
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Peggy Payne: June 2004
For our friend Dan Wakefield, author of How Do We Know When It's God?, finding novelist Peggy Payne's work was love at first sight.
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Kate Campbell: May 2004
The daughter of a Baptist preacher, Kate Campbell grew up in Sledge, Mississippi, listening to the harmonies of the choir and the stories in her dad's sermons. Her music blends a variety of American styles—Gospel, soul, R&B, Celtic music—with a particular gift for storytelling.
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Maurya Simon: April 2004
Maurya Simon's poetry explores the mysterious, elusive intersection where the sacred and profane meet. It's a difficult place to render truthfully, but by paying meticulous attention to the tangible world of small gestures and fleeting experiences, she is somehow able to capture grace—or at least register its passage.
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Issue 57
The sculpture of Richard Serra, Franz Wright on the Gospels, interview with Ron Hansen, fiction by Pinckney Benedict
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