Abbreviated Term Concludes with Ancient Text

In our final session February 20 we began with poems by Martha, Ellen, Seena and Lee, taking us on winter walks, to Yankee Stadium and back to Sebec Lake in Maine. Following the spring term, we will again post our online Shepherd's Center Poetry Anthology.

We found in Gary Whitehead's poem "Lot's Wife" the interesting interface between scholarship and poetry. We saw in the person of Lot's wife, unnamed in Genesis, a metaphor more far-reaching than  is sometimes interpreted, a figure of longing, the girl whose finger brushes ours at the market register.

I hope that you will be able to attend our luncheon/make-up session on Friday, March 7, at 10:30 a.m., in the Terrace Dining Room at the Twin Lakes Retirement Community in Burlington. We will look at Kathleen Graber's "The Drunkenness of Noah" and "The Clerk's Tale" by Spencer Reece.

Again, I have enjoyed our time together, albeit cut short by the weather.