Bradford Winters

Hawk and Songbird

Arts & Literature

“With equal parts transparency and generosity, Susan Cowger scatters her verses like birdseed to nourish the reader who marvels at the call and response of faith despite the roving shadow of predatory illness. This isn’t just seed for the feeding, but also the planting, ‘as God’s promises run after us all / with a spade’ to turn the hard soil of our hearts and help us see afresh that ‘Being alive is a gate made of pearl.’”