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Luci Shaw's "Advent Visitation"
This week we're sharing Luci Shaw's advent and Christmas-themed poems with you. Up next: "Advent Visitation. "Biography from LuciShaw.comLuci Shaw was born in 1928 in London, England, and has lived in Canada, Australia and the U.S.A. A 1953 high honors graduate of Wheaton College in Illinois, she became co-founder and later president of Harold Shaw Publishers, and since 1988 has been a Writer in Residence at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada.A charter member of the Chrysostom Society of Writers, Shaw is author of eleven volumes of poetry includingSea Glass: New & Selected Poems(WordFarm, 2016),Thumbprint in the Clay: Divine Marks of Beauty, Order and Grace(InterVarsity Press, 2016),Polishing the Petoskey Stone(Shaw, 1990),Writing the River(Pinon Press, 1994/Regent Publishing, 1997),The Angles of Light(Waterbrook, 2000),The Green Earth: Poems of Creation(Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2002), has edited three poetry anthologies and a festschrift,The Swiftly Tilting Worlds of Madeleine L’Engle, (Shaw, 1998). Her most recent books areWhat the Light Was Like(Word Farm),Accompanied by Angels(Eerdmans),The Genesis of It All(Paraclete), andBreath for the Bones: Art, Imagination & Spirit(Nelson). Her poetic work and essays have been widely anthologized. Shaw has authored several non-fiction prose books, includingWater My Soul: Cultivating the Interior Life(Zondervan) andThe Crime of Living Cautiously(InterVarsity). She has also co-authored three books with Madeleine L’Engle,WinterSong(Regent),Friends for the Journey(Regent), andA Prayer Book for Spiritual Friends(Augsburg/Fortress).