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Terry Minchow-Proffitt

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Born

in Flint, MI, The United States

Website

http://www.Terryproffitt.jimdo.com

Genre

Poetry

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Christian Wiman, Scott Cairns, T. Crunk, Cathy Smith-Bowers, Rebecca H ...more

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Terry Minchow-Proffitt (1956) was born in Flint, MI and raised in the Mississippi Delta of eastern Arkansas. He spent nearly 30 years serving as a pastor and campus minister in Utah, New Jersey, Mississippi, Maryland and Missouri. After retiring in 2009, he began the serious pursuit of his love for God through poetry and prayer. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Arkansas Review, Big Muddy, Christian Century, decomP magazinE, Deep South Magazine, Desert Call, Freshwater, Hash, Mud Season Review, OVS Magazine, Oxford Magazine, Penwood Review, Pisgah Review, Prick of the Spindle, St. Ann's Review, Tower Journal, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Wild Violet, Words and Images Journal and The Write Room. Poem "III" from his Seven Last Words ...more

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No Man Is an Island

Coley and Me, Dyess, AR, circa early '60s

What lasts is what you start with.
–Charles Wright

My very first sermon was titled “No Man Is an Island.” Okay, not very
original, I’ll give you that. Another pastor/poet named John Donne beat me to the punch by well nigh four centuries, in 1624. But it said all I knew to say at the time and took all of twelve
minutes to preach. I describe the sermo

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