Boaden, Ann

Ann Boaden is professor emerita of English at Augustana College. She is a contributor to several publications, including From SAC, Gingerbread House, Ginosko, and Ink Babies. Her books include Light and Leaven: Women who shaped Augustana’s first century, and Fritiof’s Story, a young adult novel.

Man After Diagnosis (Spring/Summer 2019)

Paraclete (Spring/Summer 2019)

Advent Baptism (Fall/Winter 2019)

Advent Light (Fall/Winter 2019)

“Cries” (Fall/Winter 2019)

Grace (Spring/Summer 2020)

Two Days (Spring/Summer 2020)

Tribute to Roald Tweet (Fall/Winter 2020)

Roald Tweet became a member of the Augustana College English Department in 1960, and remained there until his retirement in 1999; he chaired the department from 1967 until 1984.

Leviathan (Fall/Winter 2020)

Mages (Fall/Winter 2020)

Julian: the Showings (Spring/Summer 2021)

Epiphany (Fall/Winter 2021)

Book Review: Power, Passion, and Faith (Spring/Summer 2022)

Emmy Carlsson Evald, suffragist, orator, church leader, mission-builder, tore through her eight-decade-long life like a whirlwind — and changed the world. She was a Swedish-American icon. She was a beloved and feared activist. But above all, she was a woman of faith, called, as she believed, to create a better tomorrow.

Somewhere a cardinal (Spring/Summer 2022)

Summer Hail (Spring/Summer 2022)

Lot’s Wife (Fall/Winter 2022)

Summer Dusk (Spring/Summer 2023)

Poetry (Fall/Winter 2023-2024)

Mary after Annunciation; Winter Along the Mississippi

Fire Tender (Spring/Summer 2024)

To the Bats in the Sanctuary (Spring/Summer 2024)

Last fall, the sanctuary of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Rock Island, Illinois, became home to a community of bats. Because bats are a protected species that mates in the fall, the sanctuary was vacated while the bat-babies were born and nurtured. Worship services moved to the social hall. Parishioners were encouraged to show eco-hospitality by learning about and celebrating these fellow tenants of our church and our world. This poem is one of the responses.