To Die is Gain by Tania Runyan - Poem for the Seventeenth 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 Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A can be found here)
This poem was selected to accompany one of the
lectionary readings for the coming week, Philippians 1:21-30
To Die is Gain
Tania Runyan
SNIPPET:
Even when she found herself
curled up on the deck of a ship
…
Sophie Jewett Tania Runyan is an American author and poet. She has published several collections of poetry, including Delicious Air, which was awarded Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature in 2007. Her first book of creative nonfiction, Making Peace With Paradise, was released in 2022. Tania’s friendly instructional guides, How to Read a Poem, How to Write a Poem, How to Write a Form Poem, and How to Write a College Application Essay, are used in classrooms across the country. Her poems have appeared in many publications, including Poetry, Image, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, The Christian Century, Saint Katherine Review, and the recent anthologies Taking Root in the Heart, and Christian Poetry in America Since 1940. Tania has been awarded an NEA Literature Fellowship and an Award of Excellence from the Associated Church Press. She lives with her family in Illinois. (via taniarunyan.com)