Wild Violet Featured Works: Week of July 29 (Religion, Part 1)

By on Jul 29, 2013 in Issue Archives

Woman praying, in negative

In part one of our look at religion, Wild Violet’s contributors examine the nature of faith and its relationship to our lives:

Naomi Ruth Lowinsky’s poem, “Lust and the Holy,” combines religious imagery with the natural world to paint a portrait of 

In the short story “The Christian” by Aaron Martz, a family is tested by one family member’s crisis of faith. 

In Terry Minchow-Proffitt’s poem, “An Early Exit,” a pastor tries to figure out why a parishioner has left the church. 

Robert Bailey’s flash fiction piece, “All Suffering Soon to End,” depicts a crucial moment where a man finds the unexpected inspiraton to fight back against depression. 

 

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Alyce Wilson is the editor of Wild Violet and in her copious spare time writes humor, non-fiction, fiction and poetry and infrequently keeps an online journal. Her first chapbook, Picturebook of the Martyrs; her e-book/pamphlet, Stay Out of the Bin! An Editor's Tips on Getting Published in Lit Mags ; her book of essays and columns, The Art of Life; her humorous nonfiction ebook, Dedicated Idiocy: How Monty Python Fandom Changed My Life, and her newest poetry collection, Owning the Ghosts, can all be ordered from her Web site, AlyceWilson.com. In late 2019, she published a volume of poetry by her third great-grandfather, Reading's Physician Poet: Poems by Dr. James Meredith Mathews, which also contains genealogical information about the Mathews family. She lives with her husband and son in the Philadelphia area and takes far too many photos of her handsome, creative son, nicknamed Kung Fu Panda.