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Lynn Domina

Lynn Domina teaches at Northern Michigan University and is author of Devotions from HERstory.

Poetry

Superstar

Remember that scene in the Arena production, how the lightingenables everything else, the man’s featurelesssilhouette, an abrupt clap, then...
Poetry

Shelter

Years later, shivering with ague, Martin Lutherrecalled lightning, his leaking boots, rain-soakedcloak, sodden cuffs, dripping hair, cheeks,...
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.
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, ...
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...
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...
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...

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