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 numer￾ous 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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anamnesis: confronting God in the flesh

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,…

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Third 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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Advent: Moose in Moonlight

Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 3

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Creek Skating

Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 3

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Divided

Articles/Essays – Volume 14, No. 4

His call came dressed 
In honor 
As the President grasped 
For a handshake, 

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They Have Closed the Church My Father Helped Build

Articles/Essays – Volume 19, No. 4

where he sawed through his finger 
now perpetually stiff, 
paid three assessments 

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Evenings: His Church Calling

Articles/Essays – Volume 19, No. 4

The sound burrs in my head 
like a racket of angry birds 
swirling from the sky. 
He’s gone again; 

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Navel

Articles/Essays – Volume 21, No. 3

I drive by a red farmhouse 
in the setting sun. Orange morning 
darts through rippled glass. 
High-glossed linoleum 

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On a Denver Bus

Articles/Essays – Volume 22, No. 4

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Chokecherries

Articles/Essays – Volume 23, No. 1

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Deity

Articles/Essays – Volume 23, No. 3

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Counting the Cost

Articles/Essays – Volume 24, No. 3

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Return

Articles/Essays – Volume 25, No. 4

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The Book Handed Her

Articles/Essays – Volume 25, No. 4

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Going Dark

Articles/Essays – Volume 27, No. 2

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His Sermon

Articles/Essays – Volume 27, No. 2

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Early Winter

Articles/Essays – Volume 27, No. 3

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What Remains

Articles/Essays – Volume 28, No. 3

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Gaining Darkness

Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 2

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Learning from the Land

Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 3

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Lily Foot

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 3

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We Write What We Want to Know

Articles/Essays – Volume 31, No. 4

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Learning to Disappear

Articles/Essays – Volume 33, No. 4

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Proud Flesh

Articles/Essays – Volume 35, No. 1

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Miracle of Wood

Articles/Essays – Volume 35, No. 4

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We Were Not Consulted

Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 3

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Yahrzeit

Articles/Essays – Volume 37, No. 4

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Afield

Articles/Essays – Volume 37, No. 4

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Fidelity to Objects

Articles/Essays – Volume 41, No. 2

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Necktie

Articles/Essays – Volume 41, No. 2

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Abba: The Name of God

Articles/Essays – Volume 42, No. 3

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Listening to My Parents Through the Ventilator Shaft

Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 3

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Let Rocks Their Silence Break

Articles/Essays – Volume 47, No. 2

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Grass Whistles

Articles/Essays – Volume 47, No. 2

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Divertissement

Articles/Essays – Volume 47, No. 2

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