Poetry
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New Places to Find My Poetry!
Working Toward Rhythms-New Horizons and Platforms-Published Work. Happy Labor Day to my US readers! I’m excited to share new poems with you. Here are several places where you will be able to find new work: My New Substack: The KilnI’m putting semi-finished poems here, as Substack seems the place to share poems that either I Continue reading
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Image in Poem and Preaching
Let the image sing loud, lean into the images to their breaking point, and then through the emotions in the image bring forth the meaning. Continue reading
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Nothing is Still
Behold, nothing is still. If you look, no, lookand still your eyeon the cypress, the brookis easy, but the cypress too—watch themgo, now; eyes, open they, meant to hide, quakein prescient wind, slowbut moving. Move in close, seethe distance increase. In, now; lean, nowtitanic movements beneath them, shakewith each second movingin atomic cadence— worlds, even Continue reading
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Daring to Speak of Heaven
The first of four reflections on the vision of heaven in Revelation 4-5 Continue reading
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The Kiln – February 20th, 2025
The first newsletter-type update on current works, publications, and ideas. Continue reading
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And Every Day Since – A Memory
Here’s my permission to skip this poem and post. I can’t think of a more depressing way to end the year. I’ve been thinking about grief a lot lately, perhaps because of my chronic nostalgia, or the holidays, or something else entirely. So, I wrote this poem about a moment that has haunted me, a Continue reading
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Poems of the Incarnation – A Reading
I had a great time explaining my series of poems Poems of the Incarnation: John the Evangelist at Lena Free Church. If you’re interested, here’s a recording from the time. The poems themselves are forthcoming at Foreshadow, a Christian poetry magazine, but they were intended for my church as an advent devotional. Continue reading
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The Word to the People – A Poem
To make it plain, ironed and pressedGround and brewed, poured and served. Prayed through, pained through, caught throughThe tide of mined eternity, the incarnation When the mine came in form of the minerAnd spoke in words of gold: prophet and poetSalesman and scholarWatchman and woe-workerSoldier and scribe. To disturb and pruneDress and bind the wounds. Halt the hard Continue reading
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Blackhawk- My First Published Poem
It’s here! Ekstasis, a poetry magazine by Christianity Today, has published Blackhawk, a poem about conversion rooted in imagery from my street (Blackhawk Court). I am so honored! Please, follow the link and give it a read! https://www.ekstasismagazine.com/poetry/2024/blackhawk Give it a like and comment on Ekstasis. I hope to publish there again soon. Continue reading
Revival and Renewal 