Apologies, by Karenne Wood - Poem for the Second Sunday of Advent, 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 Second Sunday of Advent, Year A can be found here)



This poem was selected to accompany one of the
lectionary readings for the coming week,  

Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19



Apologies
Karenne Wood

SNIPPET:

We resolve that the injustices of the past must never,

never happen again and look to a future based on mutual

respect, where all, whatever their origins, are equal partners.

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Poet and linguistic anthropologist Karenne Wood grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC. She earned an MFA at George Mason University and a PhD in anthropology at the University of Virginia, where she was a Ford Fellow. In her poems, she often explores themes of identity, cultural practice, and language within portraits of historical and contemporary Virginia Indians.


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