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I've enjoyed posting poetry series themed around the Christian year in the past couple of years (see "Poetry for Lent" and "Poetry for Easter"). I will continue that with a series called "Poetry for Ordinary Time." Ordinary time includes two sections of the church year between Christmastide and Lent and Easter and Advent. The word …
Continue reading "Tomas Tranströmer, “Open and Closed Spaces” [Poetry for Ordinary Time]"
I've enjoyed posting poetry series themed around the Christian year in the past couple of years (see "Poetry for Lent" and "Poetry for Easter"). I will continue that with a series called "Poetry for Ordinary Time." Ordinary time includes two sections of the church year between Christmastide and Lent and Easter and Advent. The word …
Continue reading "C. S. Lewis, “Evensong” [Poetry for Ordinary Time]"
Every Thursday during Lent, I have posted a poem that I find helpful for deeper engagement with Jesus' journey to the Cross and the significance of Lent. Because I will post something different for Maundy Thursday tomorrow, I'm posting this week's poem one day early. Here is Geoffery Hill's poem "Lachrimae Amantis" from Tenebrae. Geoffrey …
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Every Thursday during Lent, I post a poem that I find helpful for deeper engagement with Jesus' journey to the Cross and the significance of Lent. Here is Emily Pauline Johnson's poem "Brier (Good Friday)" from Flint and Feather: The Collected Poems of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake). Johnson, known also by her adopted name "Tekahionwake," …
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Every Thursday during Lent, I post a poem that I find helpful for deeper engagement with Jesus' journey to the Cross and the significance of Lent. Here is Li-Young Lee's poem "Nativity" from Book of My Nights. Born to Chinese political exiles in Indonesia, Li-Young Lee was later educated in the United States and has …
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Matthew Erickson 