Mischa Willett

Jul 12, 2024 | thegospelcoalition.org | Mischa Willett |Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra |Joe Carter |Matt Smethurst

In Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot called poetry “a raid on the inarticulate.” I’ve always liked the phrase. It implies the chaotic mess of life in a postlapsarian world is mimicked in language’s fragmentary nature. It also implies poets can do something about it, diving into the deep as they find treasure and nourishment. Having found them, they can offer them for our benefit. There’s something clandestine about the whole operation—a raid—reminiscent of the Promethean theft of fire.

Aug 19, 2023 | farefwd.com | Mischa Willett

A few of the reasons why a professor and poet keeps going to church. In the late 1970s, a few of the hippie “Jesus Freaks” who had morphed into the California Vineyard movement took Interstate 10 east to the Arizona desert and set up some home groups.

Mar 7, 2023 | imagejournal.org | Mischa Willett

THE STORY GOES LIKE THIS:A long time ago, the raven looked down from the sky and saw that the people of the world were living in darkness. The ball of light was kept hidden by a selfish old chief. So the raven turned itself into a spruce needle and floated on the river where the chief’s daughter came for water. She drank the spruce needle. She became pregnant and gave birth to a boy which was the raven in disguise. The baby cried and cried until the chief gave him the ball of light to play with.