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Poet Alexander Levering Kern reads “Target Practice at the Beach”

Excerpt from Target Practice at the Beach: Sometimes there’s no symbol, only comic relief. Consider how, for a four year old…

Alexander Levering Kern

Poetry

Target Practice at the Beach

Friends Journal poetry: "Sometimes there’s no symbol, only comic relief..."

Alexander Levering Kern

Poetry

Here Am I, Lord, Send Me

for my grandmother, Miriam Lindsey Levering (1913-1991) Blue light a nimbus from the TV, she’s listeningto the darkness delivering news…

Alexander Levering

Features

Quaker Leadership and Education

Three stories and a vision of recovering joy.

Alexander Levering Kern

Poetry

Underground Beloved

FJ Poetry: "It's possible of course to fall in love each morning..."

Alexander Levering Kern

Poetry

Support Committee for a Quaker Friend, Elected to Public Office

—for Kathleen Kelly Outside the meeting, the usual mutter:                wordword wordword word wordity…

Alexander Levering

Poetry

A Perilous Quaker Marriage Proposal

On the day I proposed I first sat in silence / hoping words would rise from the garden paths

Alexander Levering Kern

Poetry

Before the Fireplace: December, 1993

When forty-four summers have touched your face / And sown long furrows beside your eyes

Alexander Levering Kern

February 2025 Books

What an Island Knows: Poems

By Alexander Levering Kern. Shanti Arts Publishing, 2024. 148 pages. $18.95/paperback. Alexander Levering Kern’s collection of poems, What an Island…

Reviewed by James W. Hood

Target Practice at the Beach

“Target Practice at the Beach” from September by Alexander Levering Kern. Released: 2015.