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The Principled Poet Addresses the School Board
When poets are removed, there is no remedial course. We read an alphabet of absence. We are banished to concrete classrooms— noses pressed against windows, playground swallowed whole. When poets fade...
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Attack of the Clones
The documentary The People vs. George Lucas, with all its jokes about Ewoks and midi-chlorians, is perhaps destined to be enjoyed most by Star Wars superfans. However, it raises a series of intriguing...
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Not much time left to submit a paper. The deadline is January 15. Here’s a link to the CFP. Registration information is now available. —————— Registration Information for the 2012 meeting of the...
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Are Artists the High Priests of Culture? Part I
In his seminal Art in Action (1980), Reformed philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff emphasized the way in which the artist, “when he brings forth order for human benefit or divine honor,” participates in...
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On Praise and Worship Music: An Essay to its Cultured Despisers
“Praise and worship” music is one of the most oft-evoked and heavily contested markers of evangelical Protestantism in the United States. Its most vocal advocates herald praise and worship and its...
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For BHF We had only one more residency at Whidbey Island, in Washington State, until we graduated from our mostly long-distance writing program, so the four of us boys had decided to commemorate the...
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Sing More Like a Girl
The Awful Rowing EP by Hardworker Image courtesy of Jennifer Jane Photography. I’ve spent a lot of time watching men’s mouths. Matching vowel shapes. Anticipating the intake of breath and the clip of...
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