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GUZZLE—Alex Mouw
By Alex MouwOn a sunken green couch in a mist of wine and tears, you once said to me, “I wish that someone would write my story” (the young dead sisters…
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Holy Saturday—Tania Runyan
By Tania RunyanFellow sufferers, you know as well as I do that Friday is rarely the worst. It's Saturday morning, when the body's lizard-dry from crying…
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Psalm 22—Andy Patton
Psalm 22 is a fitting one to help prepare us for Good Friday and Easter.
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Flannery's Music—Angela Alaimo O'Donnell
March 25, 2026, marks the 101st anniversary of the birth of Flannery O’Connor.
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Three Lenten Sonnets—Andrew Peterson
Andrew Peterson, singer, songwriter, author, and founder of the Rabbit Room, has been writing Lenten Sonnets on his own Substack. We’ve selected a few…
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How to Be a Poet—Wendell Berry
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WHATEVER IS—Sarah Chestnut
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Shirt Poems—Luci Shaw
by Luci ShawHow obediently the necessary words arrange themselves along the line of my typing, their damp, colored nouns and adjectives pegged on a…
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Trying to Explain What Knafeh is— Andrew Calis
We have invited Andrew Calis, author of Which Seeds Will Grow (Paraclete Press), to take over the Substack this week.
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Estuary—Luci Shaw
We’ve invited the renowned Christian poet, Luci Shaw, to take over the Substack this week.
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Let the Heavens Turn Around—Elise Meredith Jimison
This poem is from a forthcoming illustrated poetry anthology from Bandersnatch Books called I've Got a Bad Case of Poetry, edited by Rachel S.
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The Jumblies Sail Again (with apologies to Edward Lear)—Jennifer Trafton
Part of the forthcoming anthology “I’ve Got a Bad Case of Poetry.” Support the Kickstarter to help bring the book into the world.
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Christmas Eve Eve—Angela Alaimo O'Donnell
We have invited Angela Alaimo O’Donnell to be the second of a pair of poets commissioned to write Advent poems for this Substack.
Dec 23, 2024
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Upon the Winter Solstice & Fourth Sunday of Advent Falling on the Same Day—Angela Alaimo O'Donnell
We have invited Angela Alaimo O’Donnell to be the second of a pair of poets commissioned to write Advent poems for this Substack.
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Solstice Poem—Angela Alaimo O'Donnell
"The day is brief but bright. Break it with song, invite the darkling world to sing along."
Dec 21, 2024
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The Body in Advent—Angela Alaimo O'Donnell
We have invited Angela Alaimo O’Donnell to be the second of a pair of poets commissioned to write Advent poems for this Substack.
Dec 19, 2024
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Birth—Tania Runyan
We’ve invited Tania Runyan to be our next commissioned poet, and she has written five previously unpublished poems to help us think through and…
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Four Poems—Luke Harvey
Walker County Council Meeting: March 3rdThe quorum hobbles through the hobbled door of the civic center, as if being touched by God in the hip socket…
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Tidy Up! A Poet’s Guide to Getting Your Writing Organized—Renee Emerson
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Where to Store Secrets That Don’t Belong to You—Heather Cadenhead
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Elegy for a Tow Truck Driver—James Matthew Wilson
Elegy for a Tow Truck Driver
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WHATEVER IS—Sarah Chestnut
honest as an egg, sturdy as steel, compassed to Polaris, true as the healing ring slipped on the hand of the son with nothing to bring— whatever is good…
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An Answer Without a Question—Robert Cording
If he were alive, he might have shrugged and said, things happen for no reason, but he wasn’t, he was only my son in a dream, where he found me sitting…
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Shirt Poems—Luci Shaw
by Luci ShawHow obediently the necessary words arrange themselves along the line of my typing, their damp, colored nouns and adjectives pegged on a…
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A Little Free Library—Karen An-hwei Lee
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