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.
Audio Archive
Schwehn, Kaethe
Recordings
"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.
Presenter: Schwehn, Kaethe / 2005"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?
Presenter: Schwehn, Kaethe / 2005"Look At This Great Sight": Seeing Well in Poetry and In Our Lives – Part 3: Have You Wasted Your Life?
Presenter: Schwehn, Kaethe / 2005"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
Presenter: Schwehn, Kaethe / 2005"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?
Presenter: Schwehn, Kaethe / 2005To Burn Without Being Consumed: Pushing the Limits of Poetry – Part 1: Whatever Happened to Lot's Wife?
Presenter: Schwehn, Kaethe / 2005To Burn Without Being Consumed: Pushing the Limits of Poetry – Part 2: Is Contemporary Poetry Worth Reading?
Presenter: Schwehn, Kaethe / 2005To Burn Without Being Consumed: Pushing the Limits of Poetry – Part 3: Is There Anything Funny About World War II
Presenter: Schwehn, Kaethe / 2005To 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
Presenter: Schwehn, Kaethe / 2005To Burn Without Being Consumed: Pushing the Limits of Poetry – Part 5: Bland Words and Boring Prayers: Can Poetry Improve Our Relationship With God?
Presenter: Schwehn, Kaethe / 2005Recent Additions
Vespers April 3, 1976 with Lue Weger – What Shall I Do With Jesus, the Christ
Vespers April 2, 1976 with Marlayne Johnson – Reflections
Vespers March 31, 1976 with Peter Lundholm – On Meeting Fiery Serpents
Vespers March 30, 1976 with Alice Fogg – Evening Vespers
Vespers March 29, 1976 with Paul Wuest – Judgment through the Light
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