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Joshua Alan Sturgill's "As Though a Seed"

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 including&nbsp;Sea Glass: New &amp; Selected Poems&nbsp;(WordFarm, 2016),&nbsp;Thumbprint in the Clay: Divine Marks of Beauty, Order and Grace&nbsp;(InterVarsity Press, 2016),&nbsp;Polishing the Petoskey Stone&nbsp;(Shaw, 1990),&nbsp;Writing the River&nbsp;(Pinon Press, 1994/Regent Publishing, 1997),&nbsp;The Angles of Light&nbsp;(Waterbrook, 2000),&nbsp;The Green Earth: Poems of Creation&nbsp;(Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2002), has edited three poetry anthologies and a festschrift,&nbsp;The Swiftly Tilting Worlds of Madeleine L’Engle, (Shaw, 1998). Her most recent books are&nbsp;What the Light Was Like&nbsp;(Word Farm),&nbsp;Accompanied by Angels(Eerdmans),&nbsp;&nbsp;The Genesis of It All&nbsp;(Paraclete), and&nbsp;Breath for the Bones: Art, Imagination &amp; Spirit&nbsp;(Nelson). Her poetic work and essays have been widely anthologized. Shaw has authored several non-fiction prose books, including&nbsp;Water My Soul: Cultivating the Interior Life&nbsp;(Zondervan) and&nbsp;The Crime of Living Cautiously&nbsp;(InterVarsity). She has also co-authored three books with Madeleine L’Engle,&nbsp;WinterSong&nbsp;(Regent),&nbsp;Friends for the Journey&nbsp;(Regent), and&nbsp;A Prayer Book for Spiritual Friends&nbsp;(Augsburg/Fortress).

Luci Shaw's "Advent Visitation"

This week we're sharing Luci Shaw's Christmas-themed poems with you. Up first, a poem that suits this week's astronomical happenings!

Luci Shaw's "Some Christmas Stars"

Wendell Berry, in full&nbsp;Wendell Erdman Berry, (born&nbsp;<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/August" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">August</a>&nbsp;5, 1934, Port Royal, Kentucky, U.S.), American author whose nature&nbsp;<a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/poetry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">poetry</a>, novels of America’s rural past, and essays on ecological responsibility grew from his experiences as a farmer. -- Bio via Britannica.com

Wendell Berry's "Remembering That It Happened Once"

William Henry Davies, (born July 3, 1871,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Newport-Wales" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Newport</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Monmouthshire" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Monmouthshire</a>, Wales—died Sept. 26, 1940, Nailsworth,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Gloucestershire" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gloucestershire</a>, Eng.), English poet whose lyrics have a force and simplicity uncharacteristic of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/poetry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">poetry</a>&nbsp;of most of his Georgian contemporaries. --Bio via Britannica.com

W.H. Davies' "Winter's Beauty"

Rowan Williams, in full&nbsp;Rowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth in the City and County of Swansea, (born June 14, 1950,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Swansea-Wales" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Swansea</a>, Wales), 104th&nbsp;<a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/archbishop-of-Canterbury" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">archbishop of Canterbury</a>&nbsp;(2002–12), a noted theologian, archbishop of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Church-in-Wales" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Church in Wales</a>&nbsp;(2000–02), and the first archbishop of Canterbury in modern times chosen from outside the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Church-of-England" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Church of England</a>. -- Bio via Britannica.com.

Rowan William's "Advent Calendar"

Robert Frost, in full&nbsp;Robert Lee Frost, (born March 26, 1874, San Francisco,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/California-state" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">California</a>, U.S.—died January 29, 1963, Boston, Massachusetts), American poet who was much admired for his depictions of the rural life of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/New-England" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New England</a>, his command of American&nbsp;<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/colloquial" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">colloquial</a>&nbsp;speech, and his realistic verse portraying ordinary people in everyday situations. -- Bio via Britannica.com

Robert Frost's "An Old Man's Winter Night"

Jim Harrison, byname of&nbsp;James Thomas Harrison, (born December 11, 1937,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Grayling-Michigan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grayling</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Michigan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Michigan</a>, U.S.—died March 26, 2016, Patagonia, Arizona), American novelist and poet known for his lyrical treatment of the human struggle between nature and domesticity. Arguably his most famous work was&nbsp;Legends of the Fall&nbsp;(1979; films 1990 and 1994), a collection of three novellas about a Montana rancher and his three sons, the latter of whom all love the same woman. -- Bio via Britannica.com

Happy Birthday, Jim Harrison! 

Today (December 10th) is Emily Dickinson's birthday so in honor of the great poet, here's a sampling of some of her work.

Emily Dickinson's Birthday

John Milton, (born December 9, 1608,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/London" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">London</a>, England—died November 8?, 1674, London?), English poet, pamphleteer, and historian, considered the most significant English author after&nbsp;<a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Shakespeare" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">William Shakespeare</a>. -- Bio via Britannica.com.

John Milton's "On His Deceased Wife"

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