Anita Tanner
ANITA TANNER {[email protected]} reads and writes insatiably in Boise, Idaho. She is a member of the Osher Institute for continued learning at Boise State University. She has had poetry published in numerous periodicals and magazines and had a book of poetry published in 1999 titled Where Fields Have Been Planted.
Osmond Ward Chapel, Now Demolished
Articles/Essays – Volume 56, No. 1
Sometimes from the thresholdof these doorswe are greeted by another self,another worldwe wish to worship, incarnationthe tithe we offerfor such a crossing: we, seeking the divine,the divine leaning toward us,fading coal of memory igniting into…
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Articles/Essays – Volume 56, No. 1
Listen the Out Loud version of this poem here. 1. a patient’s accountof medical history,a reiteration of conditionscontracted by mortality,a form of proud flesh’sgranulation over a wound,a raised tissue massdelineating impact to sayhere is pain,…
Read moreThird Place: Penitent Magdalene, Donatello
Articles/Essays – Volume 55, No. 4
Shock of agingin a wooden sculpture—more than yearsdisplayed here,her gauntand weathered faceportraying time had its way—sunken eyes,broken teeth,parched and haggard lips. The cathedralof her handsforms a gothic archbelow her chinsuggesting prayer,her frail body embracedby heavy…
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