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After Mowing Hay

By Melva Priddy on June 1, 2017

FJ Poetry: “After a June day’s work, having driven…”

Melva Priddy lives in聽Winchester, Ky.


Posted in: Poetry, Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
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A Grace of Thanksgiving

By Michael S. Glaser on June 1, 2017

FJ Poetry: “We are cooking / and talking about how some foods” 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please join us today! For $28, you’ll get: A聽year of聽Friends Journal delivered to your mailbox (11 issues) and email Full, instant access to the world鈥檚 largest online library […]

Michael S. Glaser lives in聽St. Mary鈥檚 City, Md.


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On a Friend’s 70th聽Birthday

By Bob Welsh on May 22, 2017

FJ Poetry: His feet walk daily paths, as duties call…

Bob Welsh lives in聽Black Mountain, N.C.

The obituary of the subject of Welsh’s聽poem, Bob Barrus, also appears in the May 2017 issue.


Posted in: Poetry, Quaker Summers
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Death of a Patient

By Geoff Knowlton on April 1, 2017

FJ Poetry: “I heard the news on a snowy day…”

Geoff Knowlton lives in聽Princeton, Mass.


Posted in: AFSC Centennial, Poetry
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Making my Bed

By Bob Elmendorf on April 1, 2017

FJ Poetry: “I unfolded the map of the pillowcase…” 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please join us today! For $28, you’ll get: A聽year of聽Friends Journal delivered to your mailbox (11 issues) and email Full, instant access to the world鈥檚 largest online library of Quaker聽information: every聽Friends […]

Bob Elmendorf lives in聽Malden Bridge, N.Y.


Posted in: AFSC Centennial, Poetry
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Laundry

By Alane Cameron Miles on March 1, 2017

FJ Poetry: “Folding fitted sheets / is an origami of / the linen closet.”

Alane Cameron Miles lives in Richmond, Va.


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A Persuasive Chill

By Henry Taylor on March 1, 2017

FJ Poetry: “One of my grandfather’s stories.” 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please join us today! For $28, you’ll get: A聽year of聽Friends Journal delivered to your mailbox (11 issues) and email Full, instant access to the world鈥檚 largest online library of Quaker聽information: every聽Friends Journal ever […]

Henry Taylor lives in聽Santa Fe, N.M.


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Wallops Island Celestial Meeting

By George Eastburn on February 1, 2017

FJ Poetry: “Wallops Island morning launch…”

George Eastburn lives in聽Glenside, Pa.


Posted in: February 2017, Poetry
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Where is Your Brother?

By Dudley Warman on February 1, 2017

FJ Poetry: “She watched him die again and again, again and again all night on the all-night news…” 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please join us today! For $28, you’ll get: A聽year of聽Friends Journal delivered to your mailbox (11 issues) and email Full, instant access […]

Dudley Warman lives in聽Bedford, Bedfordshire,聽United Kingdom


Posted in: February 2017, Poetry
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After the Marathon Bombing

By Lisa DeSiro on January 1, 2017

FJ Poetry: What shall we do with the stillness, do with the hate and the pity?

Lisa DeSiro lives in Cambridge, Mass.


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