Stanley Hauerwas, Lectionary Poetry, Amanda Gorman, Willa Cather - April 19

Stanley Hauerwas, Lectionary Poetry, Amanda Gorman, Willa Cather - April 19 - ERB Daily Book Morsel

Published: Mon, 04/19/21

April 19, 2021

“This is what language does:
organize the world into manageable,
and in some sense artificial, units that
can then be inhabited and manipulated.”

- Stanley Fish,

philosopher / critic

Today marks his birthday...

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*** O Pioneers! A Novel
by Willa Cather

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Lectionary Poetry –

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New Book Releases – Week of 19 April 2021 – Beth Allison Barr, more

Here are a few new book releases from this week that are worth checking out… Beth Allison Barr, David Steindl-Rast, Catherine Keller, more

Andrea Grosso Ciponte – Freiheit! The White Rose Graphic Novel [Review]

The Courage Required to Resist Where We Need To
A Review of Freiheit! The White Rose Graphic Novel
by Andrea Grosso Ciponte (Plough Books, 2021)
By Erin Wasinger,
ERB Contributing Editor on books for young readers

*** April is National Poetry Month!

Amanda Gorman – The Hill We Climb – 2021 Inaugural Poem [Video]

Amanda Gorman, the first National Youth Poet Laureate, stole the show at President Joseph Biden’s inauguration yesterday, as she read her poem “The Hill We Climb,” which was adapted for the occasion after the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6. Watch the video of her reading “The Hill We Climb” below, as well as her interview afterwards with Anderson Cooper.

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Here's to energizing reading today!

Chris Smith
Editor, The Englewood Review of Books