Poets of Faith

Conversation with
Chris Anderson

 

Releasing this September, Rattle #45 features 41 Poets of Faith. As Kenny Williams writes in his contributor’s note, “To call yourself a ‘poet of faith’ is a dangerous move.” As Chris Anderson says, confessing that faith includes doubt is a cliché: “The hard thing both personally and creatively is to profess what we believe, and that we do believe.” But these poets do the hard thing in poem after poem, exploring the world openly and honestly through the lenses of their various faith traditions.

In the conversations section, Alan Fox discusses poetry and faith in an inspiring interview with poet and Catholic deacon Chris Anderson.

 

	Poets of Faith
	Leslie Marie Aguilar	Bathtub Baptism
	Chris Anderson	Blessing
	Doug Paul Case	Love Letter to Argenta Perón
	Leila Chatti	14, Sunday School, 3 Days Late
	Michael Cirelli	Dua for Dervishes
	Peter Cooley	Recursives
	Maryann Corbett	Apophatic
	Carol V. Davis	What Is Faith, After All?
	Todd Davis	Transfiguration of the Beekeeper’s …
	Jaclyn Dwyer	Ode to Bobs, Breasts, and Beauty
	Phillip T. Egelston	Little Eucharist
	Ted Eisenberg	Signs and Wonders
	Albert Haley	Little Angel
	Red Hawk	The Transformation
	David James	I Find It Difficult to Talk to …
	Mark Jarman	At the Communion Rail
	John Philip Johnson	There Have Come Soft Rains
	Richard Leach	Ten Facts About the Towers
	Moira Linehan	The Way a Psalm Can Begin
	Celeste Lipkes	Two Small Fish
	Peter E. Murphy	Grand Fugue
	Steve Myers	Desert Cell
	Dan Nemes	Love Poem
	Hannah Faith Notess	Water Under World
	Kate Peper	Saved
	Julie Price Pinkerton	What Is My Life About?
	Haya Pomrenze	A Beautiful Town
	Christine Potter	Save the Human Race
	David Radavich	Canticle
	Rita Mae Reese	On the Problems of Empathy
	Scott Corbet Riley	Lennon Lyric
	Marilyn Robertson	Belief
	Aisha Sharif	Why I Can Dance Down a Soul-Train Line
	Tim Sherry	Dish Team at Church Camp
	Roz Spafford	Credo
	Richard Spilman	For Jeff, on the Anniversary of His Death
	Colette Tennant	Stardust
	Laurie Uttich	Sometimes Peter, But Never Paul
	Sherrill Vore	NPR Reports
	Linda Whittenberg	Escape
	Kenny Williams	Rosemary Lamb
	Conversation
	Chris Anderson
	Photography
	Judy Keown