The Red Letters is beginning its 7th year - a vibrant community of poets&readers - marked with a poem from my own Grief's Apostrophe.
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#RedLetters #StevenRatiner #poetry
A new poem from poet/translator Carolyne Wright: "Making Love in a Cemetery" - teenage lust shaped into an Italian sonnet.
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#CarolyneWright #RedLetters #poetry
#Jesus 🩸 #redletters (what HE said)
He came for us living in #sin He came for #us because HE #LOVES us #All
#Jesus 🩸 #redletters #what #he #said 🙌🏼❣️ #love one another. He didn’t say …only if… He told us simply #loveoneanother as he has loved us❣️
Linda Bamber's new poem (Red Letter #286), by turns sardonic and solemn, takes us back to Covid & our shared brush with mortality.
#LindaBamber #RedLetters #poetry
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AV HELEL BEN SHACHAR (English)
by John M. F. Colton
666 syllables carefully curated, composed into neither litany nor revelation, but aphorism. An affirmation of objective above all else. Illuminating the outward reflection of inner light.
#2026Ready #invocation #occult #redletters #blackpages
AV HELEL BEN SHACHAR (Latin)
by John M. F. Colton
666 syllables carefully curated, composed into neither litany nor revelation, but aphorism. An affirmation of objective above all else. Illuminating the outward reflection of inner light.
#2026Ready #invocation #occult #chaos #redletters #blackpages
RLP#282: a poem from former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser from the new chapbook FELLOW CREATURES--a benefit for the Red Letters.
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Immigrants are under attack. The poor and sick are under attack. Jesus mentioned these groups of people for a reason, and He made it crystal clear how we should treat them.
#Jesus #poor #sick #immigrant #RedLetters #Christ
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Attention, anti-MAGA Christ followers! We need to speak up for "the least of these."
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#redletters #Jesus #immigrant #antimaga
Red Letter#277: a marvelous new poem from acclaimed poet Carol Muske-Dukes' next book,(BAD) SCHEHERAZADE.
#CarolMuske-Dukes #RedLetters #DragQueenStoryTime
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Who knew? I didn't know he was married to a #Hindu! He got lucky. Read the #RedLetters, the ones that #Jesus said. That's #Vedic. There is #history that HE survived #Crucifixion and taught in NW #India afterwards. #HE told them that they could not go where he went. They thought they knew.
What sly delight in Pam Alexander's "Long Story Short" published in the new Red Letter - a history of Earth and its possible destruction.
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RLP#243: a poem from Kevin McLellan's collection Sky. Pond. Mouth. -- heartbreak and revelation.
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#KevinMcLellan #RedLetters #WaltWhitman
Celebrating Ted Kooser's new chapbook - published as a benefit for the Red Letters. Read about it in this week's RLP:
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#TedKooser #FellowCreatures #RedLetters #poetry
Red Letter #271 features a poem from one of China's foremost poets, Wang Jiaxin - utterly relevant to our current situation.
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Let's be plain about modern American #faith: if Jesus were alive today, MAGAts would defame him and send him #CECOT. They've forgotten the #RedLetters that say, "unto the least of these," in favor of rhetoric that plays to their pride. Wherever the real Christians are, they need to rein this in.
Poet-turned-soldier, defending his Ukrainian homeland, Artur Dron' offers us an honest, harrowing glimpse from the frontlines. Published as RLP#266
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#ArturDron #Ukraine #RedLetters
Imagine an America where red hats actually lived by the Red Letters of Christ:
Love your neighbor. Feed the hungry. Heal the sick.
You can serve or MAGA — not both.
That’s the gospel.
#WWJD #RedLetters
From the abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe to today’s justice-minded Christians, some have always understood faith as a call to love, compassion, and justice for the poor.
Yet today, faith in America is at a crossroads. #SocialJustice #ProgressiveChristianity #RedLetters
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Jack Stewart's poem offers yet another fascinating take on the Wicked Witch of the (far) West in his new Red Letter poem.
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#JackStewart #RedLetters #WickedWitchoftheWest
Acclaimed novelist Askold Melnyczuk's first love was poetry. The Venus of Odesa collects his poems & translations. RLP#264 depicts conscience clashing with calamity.
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