Luci Shaw

In “Unseen,” the poet Luci Shaw examines air as both force and shelter, a mysterious tabernacle “for what we can’t see.”

In Luci Shaw’s “Hate Invasion,” anxieties, like crows, “clot” and “colonize” the mind and heart of the poet, who longs for divine answers to earth’s evils.

After resurrection, Jesus acted strange, materializing through solid wood, even though he didn’t look that different. The gashes seeped still, varnishing the tentative hand, the fingers that needed to know him new. Let me say how strange I feel, trusting this to be true—that a body can be both mortally wounded and whole enough to […]

In this poem, Luci Shaw metaphorically considers the cycles of collapse and reformation that define the spiritual life.

In this poem, Luci Shaw imagines the life-changing, transformative power of insubordinate ideas.

In this poem, Luci Shaw evokes sharp images of winter, mystery, nihilism, and death.