Ann Boaden

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.

29 pieces in Pietisten

Summer Storm Summer/Fall 2026
Strawberry Moon Summer/Fall 2026
Walking Each Other Home Summer/Fall 2026
Fall Bee Fall/Winter 2025-26
I will let winter Fall/Winter 2025-26
Words (for a hundred issues) Spring/Summer 2025
Midwest Afternoon on the Porch Spring/Summer 2025
Waiting Fall/Winter 2024
Silent Retreat at a Trappist Monastery Fall/Winter 2024
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.
Poetry Fall/Winter 2023-2024
Mary after Annunciation; Winter Along the Mississippi
Summer Dusk Spring/Summer 2023
Lot’s Wife Fall/Winter 2022
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
Epiphany Fall/Winter 2021
Julian: the Showings Spring/Summer 2021
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
Grace Spring/Summer 2020
Two Days Spring/Summer 2020
Advent Baptism Fall/Winter 2019
Advent Light Fall/Winter 2019
“Cries” Fall/Winter 2019
Man After Diagnosis Spring/Summer 2019
Paraclete Spring/Summer 2019