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Lynn Domina

Lynn Domina is a poet and literary scholar based in Northern Michigan.

Features

A poet converted by her own writing

Denise Levertov’s intuitive grasp of incarnation drove her politics, her poetry, and eventually her religious discernment.
October 24, 2023
Poetry

Autumn

Irritated by sweat and exhaustion, I heard without seeing an owl rush between my raised arm and torso, felt the whoosh of flight, ...
September 26, 2023
Poetry

Eve asks the serpent for a story

He began by telling her about rain, how some is soft, barely mist against her arm, how some days her hot skin will welcome its moisture...
January 31, 2022
Poetry

Leaves

I have been thinking about the difference between tradition and cliché, and about my father, how each December he placed a classic red poinsettia...
November 29, 2017
Poetry

One dragonfly hovers

above Presque Isle’s iron-gray outcroppings, its near wing a smudge of indigo at the edge of my eye, blurring like the shade of the dead friend I thought...
April 27, 2017

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