Inauguration day, as a moment of beginning and continuation, strikes me as a fine day to begin writing again. So here we go. After a great Christmas in New York, where I got to hang out with my NYC gang—namely, Amy Berryman and Daniel and Grace Berryman (my amazing kids), not to mention my lovely …
Poetry Tuesday: 100,000 Words
The most significant writing I did in 2012? Hard to say yet, but here’s one contender: over one hundred thousand words in lines of free verse tetrameter. 100,000 words in sessions of 15-20 minutes a day 5-6 times a week. Had no idea until I transferred all of it into Word files. Is it any …
Faith and Art: What is the Heart of the Matter?
What is at the heart of the conversation between art (in all its form and expression) and the faith of the Christian (in its multiple and varied flavors)? Here we go again…for more than a decade I’ve been leading an annual discussion with undergraduates at Abilene Christian University concerning the intersection between the real world …
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Poetry Tuesday: Make Me A Tower (Don’t Reduce Me)
What if we treated each other like poems? Things of beauty to be broken apart and experienced instead of commodities to be judged? Here's a piece that I've performed a couple of times, down at the open mic of the Seattle Poetry Slam and then in a worship gathering at the Northwest Church. …
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Poetry Tuesday: He Lifts The Elegant Lid
Poetry Tuesday...I've told a few people how I've been throwing down lines of tetrameter since Ash Wednesday. What if Tuesdays here became "Poetry Tuesday"? No comment, just some lines for the perusal of whoever wants to wander by? Sure, why not? The following was my entry from about three weeks ago. Enjoy... …
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