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A Chore Worth Doing

By Bear Jack Gebhardt on December 1, 2018

FJ Poetry: Day’s end, most chores done, some chores not.

Bear Jack Gebhardt lives in Fort Collins, Colo.

Posted in: Poetry, Quakers and Christianity
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Communion

By Nancy L. Bieber on November 1, 2018

FJ Poetry: “Mean cheese bread / snuggly sandwiched into bags”

Nancy L. Bieber lives in Millersville, Pa.

Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, Poetry
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If I Had Grown In Some Generous Place

By Kat Griffith on November 1, 2018

FJ Poetry: “If I had grown in some generous place—”

Kat Griffith lives in Ripon, Wisc.

Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, Poetry
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Grace Kyoko Noda

By Staff on November 1, 2018

Noda—Grace Kyoko Noda, 98, on March 14, 2018, at her home in Davis, Calif., peacefully. Grace was born on January […]

Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, Poetry
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The Many Ways the Light Gets In

By Marion Goldstein on October 1, 2018

FJ Poetry: “It was easy to judge those Jane Austen ladies / languishing all afternoon over embroidery”

Marion Goldstein lives in Cedar Grove, N.J.

Posted in: Meetings and Money, Poetry
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The Problem with Theology

By Evan McManamy on October 1, 2018

FJ Poetry: “The problem with theology / Is that I do not know”

Evan McManamy lives in Newburyport, Mass.

Posted in: Meetings and Money, Poetry
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Mistress Dyer and the Wilderness

By Anne Myles on September 24, 2018

FJ Poetry: Sometimes the wind comes from the bay / and it carries me to the Thames. But rarely. / […]

Anne Myles lives in Waterloo, Iowa.

Posted in: Poetry, September 2018
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It’s What I Do

By Leslie Smith Townsend on August 27, 2018

FJ Poetry: Oh God, I tend to grasp…

Leslie Smith Townsend lives in Louisville, Ky.

Posted in: Going Viral with Quakerism, Poetry
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Innocence Lost

By Marion Goldstein on August 1, 2018

FJ Poetry: Talk of an unhinged jaw sent me plummeting…

Marion Goldstein lives in Cedar Grove, N.J.

Posted in: Going Viral with Quakerism, Poetry
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Ebb Tide

By Joan MacIntosh on June 1, 2018

FJ Poetry: “The lake / in my dream / was not the healing one…”

Joan MacIntosh lives in St. John's, Newfoundland.

Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, Poetry
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