Schwehn, Kaethe

Kaethe studied creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of Montana and earned a BA from Gustavus Adolphus College. She is the author of several books and teaches composition and creative writing at St. Olaf College.

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"Look At This Great Sight": Seeing Well in Poetry and In Our Lives – Part 1: A bird is a bird, a bush is a bush … right? Why Emily Dickinson or Moses would disagree.

"Look At This Great Sight": Seeing Well in Poetry and In Our Lives – Part 2: If God can be found in a burning bush, can knowledge be found in scaly fish pulp?

"Look At This Great Sight": Seeing Well in Poetry and In Our Lives – Part 3: Have You Wasted Your Life?

"Look At This Great Sight": Seeing Well in Poetry and In Our Lives – Part 4: Seeing Everything At Once: What the Surrealists Can Teach Us About God

"Look At This Great Sight": Seeing Well in Poetry and In Our Lives – Part 5: If "there will never be a tomorrow", how do we stay in the now?

To Burn Without Being Consumed: Pushing the Limits of Poetry – Part 1: Whatever Happened to Lot's Wife?

To Burn Without Being Consumed: Pushing the Limits of Poetry – Part 2: Is Contemporary Poetry Worth Reading?

To Burn Without Being Consumed: Pushing the Limits of Poetry – Part 3: Is There Anything Funny About World War II

To Burn Without Being Consumed: Pushing the Limits of Poetry – Part 4: "The Whiskey On Your Breath": Writing a (Bad) Love Poem In 5 Easy Steps

To Burn Without Being Consumed: Pushing the Limits of Poetry – Part 5: Bland Words and Boring Prayers: Can Poetry Improve Our Relationship With God?

Poetry and the Bible: Lazarus

Poetry and the Bible: Eve

Who's Allowed to Write About the Holocaust?

Poetry and Grief (Part 1)

Poetry and the Bible: Judas and Peter

Can Poetry Usurp the Function of Religion in Our Lives?

Theme Vespers

Giving Tree?: Frost & Levine

Flower Power: Herbert & Gluck

To Everything There Is a Season: Keats & Wright

My Heart Stirred for a Bird! Dickinson & Hopkins

What Makes a Poem Great? Keats "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"

God is Great–But What Makes a Great Poem About God?

Is War Necessary In Order to Make Great Art?

Should a "Great" Poem Change the Reader?

Can Mothers Be Great? Poems About Motherhood

An Evening of Stories and Song with Kaethe Schwehn and Linda Allen – January 23, 2015

Reforming the Stories We Tell with Kaethe Schwehn

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