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Jeffrey Overstreet
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Author of Auralia's Colors, its three sequels, & Through a Screen Darkly. Next one in 2026! Awarded “2024 Professor of the Year” by students at Seattle Pacific University. Find me at LookingCloser.org & Substack. My writing is 100% A.I.-free.
Hated BROTHERS KARAMAZOV in college because they gave us only 2 weeks to read it and write an essay. In grad school 20 years later, given 12 weeks and and a 10-day discussion group, I had that Lifetime Peak Reading Experience that I’d heard about.
December 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
...Want to discover Luci's work? You have a whole library to explore. At nearly 97, she was prolific. New books are coming! I'd recommend WHAT THE LIGHT WAS LIKE and THE GENEROSITY—just two of her poetry collections. Her memoirs are rich, too. Need inspiration? Read THE CRIME OF LIVING CAUTIOUSLY.
December 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
... Several years ago, Anne herself was invited by the editors of Image to interview Luci about her poetry and her faith. Here's a link to that conversation:

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A Conversation with Luci Shaw - Image Journal
Luci Shaw is attentive to balance, cultivating both an active engagement with the arts in culture and the solitude necessary to listen and catch at language. Her twelve acclaimed collections of poetry...
imagejournal.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM