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part of the "Art of Discernment" Symposium on the Arts in Theological Education

sponsored by the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts & Religion

Tess Taylor is poetry critic for NPR’s All Things Considered, and a columnist for CNN. She is the author of Rift Zone (Red Hen Press, 2020); Work & Days (Red Hen Press, 2016), named one of the best poetry books of 2016 by The New York Times; The Forage House (Red Hen Press, 2013), a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award; and the chapbook The Misremembered World, which was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship. She is also author of Last West, a book length commission from the Museum of Modern Art, published in conjunction with the MOMA show, Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures (2020). Taylor’s work has appeared in The Atlantic, Kenyon Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Times Literary Supplement, CNN, and many other venues. Taylor has also served as Distinguished Fulbright US Scholar at the Seamus Heaney Centre in Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Nate Klug is the author of Rude Woods, a modern translation of Virgil’s Eclogues (The Song Cave, 2013), and two books of poetry, Anyone (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and Hosts and Guests (Princeton University Press, 2020). His poems have appeared in The Nation, the New York Review of Books, and Best American Poetry, and his writing has been supported by fellowships from the James Merrill House, the MacDowell Colony, and the Poetry Foundation. Nate is also an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. He currently serves as the pastor of Arlington Community Church in the Bay Area of California, and he teaches poetry through the Center for Arts and Religion at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.