Yellow Chair returns! We are delighted to host two wonderful writers for an evening of poetry, conversation, and merriment on Friday, September 13.
We’ll gather in Jon & Hannah’s living room at 7:30 p.m. for drinks, snacks, and poetry. Please RSVP using the form at the bottom of this post, and we will get you location information and directions.
Tania Runyan is an NEA fellow and author of the poetry collections What Will Soon Take Place, Second Sky, A Thousand Vessels, Simple Weight, and Delicious Air, which was awarded Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature. Her first book-length creative nonfiction title, Making Peace With Paradise: An Autobiography of a California Girl, was released in 2022. Tania’s instructional guides, How to Read a Poem, How to Write a Poem, and How to Write a Form Poem, are used in classrooms across the country, and her poems have appeared in publications such as Poetry, Image, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, The Christian Century, and the Paraclete anthology Christian Poetry in America Since 1940. She lives with her family in Illinois, where she works in educational publishing.
Jeff Munroe is the author of Telling Stories in the Dark: Finding healing and hope in sharing our sadness, grief, trauma, and pain (Reformed Journal Books, 2024) and Reading Buechner (IVP, 2019). He is the editor of The Reformed Journal and an ordained minister in the Reformed Church in America.
Yellow Chair Poetry 