The Story of Abraham By Alicia Ostriker - Poem for Second Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
The Englewood Review of Books curates a weekly series of classic and contemporary poems that resonate with the themes of the lectionary readings. Here is one of the poems for this coming Sunday (More poems for Second Sunday after Pentecost, Year A can be found here)
This poem was selected to accompany one of the
lectionary readings for the coming week, Romans 4:13-25
The Story of Abraham
Alicia Ostriker
SNIPPET:
I started by reading the banner headline
The way you read the big print at the eye doctor’s.
It said I AM THE LORD GOD
ALMIGHTY AND I LOVE YOU
ESPECIALLY.
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Alicia Ostriker (b. 1937) is an American poet and scholar who writes Jewish feminist poetry. She was called "America's most fiercely honest poet" by Progressive. Additionally, she was one of the first women poets in America to write and publish poems discussing the topic of motherhood. In 2015, she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. In 2018, she was named the New York State Poet Laureate. (via Wikipedia).