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A Web Exclusive Interview with John Terpstra
Wednesday October 21, 2009
John Terpstra has been in church since before he was born. “I have heard everything there is to say about the place, for and against; both its necessity and its redundancy. Have felt it all, in my bones,” he writes.
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B.H. Fairchild — Reading
Thursday October 1, 2009
Fairchild's poetry, like the prairie, is deceptively simple and open, but the subtleties and variations are there for the attentive reader to savor and sift through. He is equally at home writing poems about the working class world of his youth (he's been compared to the painter Edward Hopper) and timeless philosophical and theological questions.
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Lauren Winner — Reading
Friday August 28, 2009
A combination of Southern charisma and savvy New York intellect, Lauren Winner is like her books: brainy and sophisticated and at the same time utterly charming.
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Ann McCutchan — Reading
Thursday July 23, 2009
McCutchan's personal essays about the role of music in her life go behind the typical “liner note” style of music writing to something far more elemental, primitive, bodily—and, hence, spiritual.
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Madeline DeFrees — Reading
Wednesday July 1, 2009
A Catholic nun for thirty-eight years, DeFrees ultimately found that the experience thwarted her true vocation as a poet, yet her life is like a diptych: inside the convent, she sought words that might reach out, beyond a moralistic legalism, to touch the world; outside the convent, her worldly words reach out for a contemplative stillness.
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