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Anya Silver: October 2010
Anya Silver’s poetry belongs to the ancient tradition of meditation on the name of God—not as a way of containing and owning God, but as a way of entering into communion. Her work is pervaded by a longing for the divine that is at once specifically located in small, ordinary things, and deeply mystical.
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Brett Foster: September 2010
In an age of smallness, poet Brett Foster is willing for the mind to be large. A poet as well as professor of Renaissance literature (at Wheaton; his PhD is from Yale), he rejects the modern habit of subdividing human intellectual activity into specialized, isolated compartments.
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Jeff Gundy: August 2010
Jeff Gundy is a poet of proportion. With precise imagery, fluid, simple language, and gentle humor, he maps the place of the tiny human self in the vast universe.
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Lia Purpura: June 2010
Lia Purpura writes with steely, unflinching precision about the things we often look away from—death, and specifically the body’s decay.
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Pattiann Rogers: February 2010
Pattiann Rogers is a poet of nature—but also a profoundly theological poet. “Everything I see of heaven,” she writes, “I know by the earth.”
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Issue 71
Fiction by Larry Woiwode, interview with Joe Henry, art by Fabian Debora, essay by Barry Moser.
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