Larry Woiwode
High here on Hawk’s Nest,
No hawks fly tonight;
Songbirds heading south or west or east […]
April 25, 2003, was an ordinary Friday morning. I was making final sermon preparations for the coming Sunday when my next-door neighbor informed me that a friend of mine was going to recite poetry in Concord that afternoon. Jim Bradley and I had discussed literature in depth for years. He was a University of Chicago […]
I am a deserted barn,
my cattle robbed from me,
My horses gone,
Light leaking in my sides, sun piercing my tin roof […]
The great green earth revolves and in
Its turn to us reveals not active fate
Nor recompense on scoria ground
But quiet talks at the gate. […]
Modern Reformation is pleased to welcome Larry Woiwode, poet laureate of North Dakota, as the new poetry editor. Larry is the author of the poetry collection Even Tide (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977) and a chapbook, Land of Sunlit Ice (NDSU Press, 2016). His poetry has appeared in The Atlantic, Harpers, The New Yorker, The […]
