Sunday Perhaps I should have saved today’s joyous poem by Andrew Hudgins for the spring growing season since it associates Easter with new growth, but you’re getting it today because I enjoy it so much. To set it up, I’m also posting a poem by Lucille Clifton, which also focuses on Easter fertility imagery. “Christ […]
Edmund Spenser joyfully welcomes in Easter, proclaiming “Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.”
For Mother’s Day, here’s a Madeleine L’Engle poem about Jesus’s mother experiencing the crucifixion and then the resurrection. In it we see both the joys and the heartbreak that come with an unconditional mother’s love.
As is traditional with this blog, we share a Mary Oliver poem about a magical encounter with a deer–which recalls Mary Magdalene’s magical encounter with Jesus in the garden.
Today’s Easter poem is Mary Oliver’s “The Swan,” in which everything suddenly becomes clear.
Many of Mary Oliver’s poems, including “The Sun,” function well as Easter poems.
Nicole Krauss’s marvelous novel “Great House” finds hope in the Torah, which takes many forms.
These Lucille Clifton poems usher us from Lent into Easter.
