"I find that your poems should not be read quickly, but thoughtfully and with prayer." Sr. Mary Fay, OSB "I've read through the new collection and I find it wonderfully regaling. The varied content - arranged, it seems to me, to enhance one's sense of its variety - love the nature poems popping in and out when they do - makes this a rich and engaging feast. I'm so glad you included your Christmas sonnet sequence which deserves exposure." Guy Kettelhack, author, poet, friend

In an endeavor to find a fresh way into the scriptural text upon which I would be preaching, I began to develop an imaginary world populated primarily by wee folk. I found the characters I developed and the way that they evolved in my mind and on the page served me well as a consideration of how I sensed things happening in the scriptural text at hand. I want to make these stories and the world they represent newly available, and so I bring them to book form fifty at a time.



The cover drawing was done by Anne Sullivan, the authors daughter.
The drawing is the artists conception of the...

The poems In W. C. Flewelling's fifth collection, IN SILHOUETTE, present the acute observation of people and nature whose meanings lie beneath the quiet surface of domestic life, meanings only a poet's sure hand can uncover. John Mann, Poet and friend I enjoyed the collection, though I might be tempted to call it "The Dog man, The Poet and The Preacher" "Assignation of Delight" is one of my absolute favorites. I'm glad it's here. (Also love "The Old Goat's Name" -- with its endearing revelation of "Bill" -- and "Unfolding of the Night" - what a gorgeous spare poem that is ) I enjoy the...