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Brent is joined once again by Jennifer Holberg to talk about the 20th century poet Jane Kenyon.

Jennifer is professor and chair of the English Department at Calvin University in the States and co-director of the Calvin Center for Faith and Writing.  She’s also the author of the book ‘Nourishing Narratives’. 

• (1:00) Jane Kenyon;
• (2:30) The Luminous Particular;
• (3:50) ‘The Thimble’ and ‘Finding a Long Grey Hair’;
• (8:10) ‘What Came to Me’;
• (10:15) ‘Coats’;
• (11:55) How did Kenyon struggle with and celebrate the hard things of life?
• (12:25) ‘Dutch Interiors’;
• (14:30) ‘Otherwise’;
• (17:15) ‘Having it Out with Melancholy’;
• (30:20) ‘The Shirt’;
• (31:05) ‘Let Evening Come’.

Links mentioned in this episode:

/www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jane-kenyon

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