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Michael Shewmaker
Michael Shewmaker is a Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University. His first collection of poems,
Penumbra,
received the 2016 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. His poems appear in
Yale Review, Poetry Daily, New Criterion,
and elsewhere.
Issue 94, Fall 2016
The Pastor
October 27, 2016
A poem from the Fall 2016 issue.
I’ve seen enough of your creation, Lord,
its absurd conceits, the sins of idle men
ripened to gnashing teeth.
poetry
Christianity
Roger May