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Hannah Faith Notess -- Reading
Hannah Faith Notess earned an MFA in creative writing from Indiana University and was last year's Milton Center Fellow in Creative Writing at SPU. Her poems come from a posture of humility, and are enlarged by the religious sensibility rather than limited by it.
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Luci Shaw — Reading
Don't look for Luci Shaw lingering atop some contemplative mountaintop. She's just as likely to be flinging herself off it. Poet, spiritual essayist, bungee jumper, world traveler, and photographer, she comes by her words of wisdom by pondering on the go
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Marilyn Nelson — Reading
The poems of Marilyn Nelson wander through forgotten corridors of the past and bring forth treasures. Deeply imaginative, graceful and plainspoken, they often cry out against injustice; sometimes they cry out with gratitude to God.
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B.H. Fairchild — Reading
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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Madeline DeFrees — Reading
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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