God’s Folly, by Tania Runyan - Poem for the Fourth Sunday of Epiphany, 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 the Fourth Sunday of Epiphany, Year A can be found here)
This poem was selected to accompany one of the
lectionary readings for the coming week, I Corinthians 1: 18 – 31
God’s Folly
Tania Runyan
SNIPPET:
A dozen children pose on a hill of garbage in Indonesia,
gap-toothed little girls in sundresses linking arms in the front,
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Tania Runyan is an American author and poet. She has published several books of poetry, and her poems have appeared in many publications, including Poetry, Image, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, The Christian Century, Saint Katherine Review, and the Paraclete book Light upon Light. Tania was awarded an NEA Literature Fellowship in 2011. Her work is centered on grappling with biblical themes and contradictions.