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Travis Poling Poet, essayist & liturgist

Travis Poling
Travis Poling
Richmond, IN
Member since: Dec, 2008
Last login: 08/04/2009
Last update : 12/05/2008
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About Me

  • I grew up in a home of musicians, painters, weavers and potters. I found my path into the world of imaginative language and imagery through a long process of education in the humanities and experience in the kitchen, nonprofit world, church and classroom. My work is an attempt to capture the everyday world in words and images that twist, through an often subtle simplicity, the reader's or viewer's usual perception of an object or concept, and thereby impact that very same world.

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  • Faith and/in Imagination

    December 5, 2008

    • Poetry and story are two of the most human endeavors towards understanding our place in the world. Not content to walk through life unaware of the people, places and events around us, we search for ways to express our varying and complex relationships to these realities in some way that holds meaning and lasts beyond the timespan of a series of events. Life does not merely happen to us; instead, ...

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