Luci Shaw

Luci Shaw (b. 1928) is a prominent poet, well-known especially within Catholic and Protestant Christian contexts. She has published ten volumes of poetry (several still in print) and numerous non-fiction books, and has edited and collaborated on multiple other works, including several with Madeleine L'Engle (recently deceased). Her poems are widely anthologized. [Shaw, Luci. Biography. http://lucishaw.com/about.html. Accessed October 16, 2007.] Shaw usually works in free verse, and typically her poems are quite short, less than a page. Nevertheless, in tone and content, she affiliates most readily with the transcendental poets, often finding in natural details and themes the touch of the eternal or other-worldly. (See Poetry of the United States: Postcolonial Poetry)