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Poets and Poems: Luci Shaw and “An Incremental Life”

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

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In “An Incremental Life,” poet Luci Shaw takes stock of the personal, the poetic, and the sacred with the sense of experience lived.

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Poets and Poems: Luci Shaw and “Reversing Entropy”

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“Reversing Entropy” by Luci Shaw demonstrates the poet’s calling to bring order and meaning from the chaos of life.

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Hermit Crab Essay 003: Directions for Metaphor

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Join Callie Feyen as she seeks directions for metaphor, accompanied by her high school daughter and the high school parking lot.

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Poets and Poems: Luci Shaw and “The Generosity”

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

“The Generosity” by Luci Shaw invites us to consider the eternal in nature, in the life around us, and in our own families.

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Poems to Listen By: Under the Canopy 03—Benedictus

By Laurie Klein 8 Comments

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In her latest Under the Canopy episode, Laurie Klein reflects on the way trees remind us of eternity and mortality, with poetry from Paul Willis and Luci Shaw.

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TSP #1: Luci Shaw Talks Friendship, Freedom, and Love in a Golden Box

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Writer Friends: Luci, Madeleine, and a Lean Leather Jacket

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Eating and Drinking Poems: Storytelling and Luci Shaw’s “Eating the Whole Egg”

By Laura Lynn Brown 15 Comments

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Any family story has multiple versions: what I remember, what you remember, what really happened. Laura Brown reflects on truth, fact, and the whole egg.

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Top 10 Best Mirror Poems

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

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Poems make wonderful mirrors, excellent tools for self-reflection. We’ve gathered up a collection of 10 great mirror poems.

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Poets and Poems: Luci Shaw and “Scape”

By Glynn Young 14 Comments

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Written with a perceptive and understanding eye, the poetry collection “Scape” by Luci Shaw is about the beauty of creation and the creative act.

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The Cinnamon Beetle 6

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

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Six poems and 16 fragments – the last of our poems developed from the recent Twitter poetry party.

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The Cinnamon Beetle 5

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Below are five poems and five fragments pulled from our recent Twitter poetry party.

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The Cinnamon Beetle 4

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Our recent Twitter poetry party swirled around oceans and ashes, a drive down side roads, the telephone and how something as mundane as burning the toast becomes something else again.

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The Cinnamon Beetle 3

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

We now have an additional seven poems from our recent Twitter poetry party.

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The Cinnamon Beetle 2

By Glynn Young 9 Comments

Below are an additional five poems from our recent Twitter poetry party.

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The Cinnamon Beetle

By Glynn Young 9 Comments

Somehow, Legos, cinnamon beetles, tattoos and open windows became the focus of the early part of our Twitter poetry party.

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National Poetry Month: Luci Shaw

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Luci Shaw is a poet, essayist, retreat leader and teacher. She’s published eight books of poetry, and her poems have appeared in publications ranging from Books & Culture and The Christian Century to The Southern Review. She is currently Writer in Residence for Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. Shaw was born in England in […]

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