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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

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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

John Rudolph Kern

Kern—John Rudolph Kern, 78, on March 18, 2018, in Abingdon, Va., where he suffered a heart attack. John was born…

Staff

Features

Chronic Relativity

The Friend sitting next to us may be looking at us to find wholeness.

Evan Welkin

Patricia Webb Levering

Levering—Patricia Webb Levering, 73, on August 24, 2019, in Cornelius, N.C., after a 16-month struggle with lung cancer. Patty was…

Staff

Mass Incarceration and #BlackLivesMatter

Quakers Connect as a Movement Builds

Madeline Schaefer

David Levering

Levering—David Levering, 92, on June 11, 2021, in Claremont, Calif. David was born in Redlands, Calif., on August 4, 1928,…

Staff

Poetry

Before the Fireplace: December, 1993

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

Alexander Levering Kern

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