Spencer Reece

1 month ago | christiancentury.org | Spencer Reece |Mac Loftin |Liz Charlotte Grant |Debie Thomas

A man has a vision. He is walking on a road. He is going to bring the followers of Jesus to Jerusalem. He will persecute them. But something happens. He is struck on a road just outside Damascus, and his life is readjusted. He then is the recipient of hardship: the Lord will show him the great things he must suffer for his name’s sake (Acts 9:16). The book in which Saul becomes Paul is called Acts.

Nov 3, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Spencer Reece

¿viste la grieta azul de la luna rota?         Lorca, 5 am and I am slathered in Spain: cologne, exhaust, coffee, chorizo, the tang of an old body that needs to be washed. I’m on the top floor. 18 West 10th Street. The Emma Lazarus house: “Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” I hold my passport, covered in stamps. I’ve double-checked it twice. The moon in the window is crinkled up like Kleenex.

Aug 28, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Spencer Reece

About this Poet Born in Hartford, Connecticut, and raised in Minneapolis, poet Spencer Reece is the son of a pathologist and a nurse. He earned a BA at Wesleyan University, an MA at the University of York, an MTS at Harvard Divinity School, and an MDiv at Yale...