Summary: <p>This week we're sharing Luci Shaw's advent and Christmas-themed poems with you. Up next: "Advent Visitation. "</p><br><p><strong>Biography from LuciShaw.com</strong></p><p>Luci Shaw was born in 1928 in London, England, and has lived in Canada, Australia and the U.S.A. A 1953 high honors graduate of Wheaton College in Illinois, she became co-founder and later president of Harold Shaw Publishers, and since 1988 has been a Writer in Residence at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada.</p><br><p>A charter member of the Chrysostom Society of Writers, Shaw is author of eleven volumes of poetry including <em>Sea Glass: New & Selected Poems</em> (WordFarm, 2016), <em>Thumbprint in the Clay: Divine Marks of Beauty, Order and Grace</em> (InterVarsity Press, 2016), <em>Polishing the Petoskey Stone</em> (Shaw, 1990), <em>Writing the River</em> (Pinon Press, 1994/Regent Publishing, 1997), <em>The Angles of Light</em> (Waterbrook, 2000), <em>The Green Earth: Poems of Creation</em> (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2002), has edited three poetry anthologies and a festschrift, <em>The Swiftly Tilting Worlds of Madeleine L’Engle</em>, (Shaw, 1998). Her most recent books are <em>What the Light Was Like</em> (Word Farm), <em>Accompanied by Angels</em>(Eerdmans), <em>The Genesis of It All</em> (Paraclete), and <em>Breath for the Bones: Art, Imagination & Spirit</em> (Nelson). Her poetic work and essays have been widely anthologized. Shaw has authored several non-fiction prose books, including <em>Water My Soul: Cultivating the Interior Life</em> (Zondervan) and <em>The Crime of Living Cautiously</em> (InterVarsity). She has also co-authored three books with Madeleine L’Engle, <em>WinterSong</em> (Regent), <em>Friends for the Journey</em> (Regent), and <em>A Prayer Book for Spiritual Friends</em> (Augsburg/Fortress).</p><br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
