Best of Friends | Kimo Press

The Best of Friends, Vol.1

An exciting collection of Quaker writing and art, edited by Chuck Fager.

Meet 40 Friendly authors and artists, from 17 Yearly Meetings in three countries, who offer:

Published by Kimo Press, in association with The Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts.

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Chuck Fager: Introduction

EPIGRAPH: Evelyn Lang–to take note of

Dee Birch Cameron (Best of Friends Award Essays)
- Giving It Away
- Like a Pinball in the Gutter
- Maybe I’m Wrong
Wynne Busby: The Road to Amherst
Ken Maher: Father’s Hand
Ann Sieber: Jan de Hartog–A Captain on the Ocean of Light and Love
Liz Yeats: Reading Religious Murder Mysteries for Relaxation, Fun and Sometimes a Bit of Spiritual Growth
Elmay Kirkpatrick (Best of Friends Award Drawings)

Janeal Turnbull Ravndal (Best of Friends Award for Poetry)
for Swarthmore Crop Walk; Business Meeting; and Scrabble Prayers
John de Valcourt: Quaker Men’s Group
Margaret Diorio: Lost Boy
Camilla Hewson Flintermann: On Watching the Amaryllis Bloom
Margie Gaffron: In an Amish Cornfield
Esther Greenleaf Mürer: mammon his fourth commandment
Aliyah Meena Shanti: The Universe’s Language (Best of Friends Award for Writing by a Young Friend)
Kristi Rozdilsky: An Affirmation in Bliss, Idaho
Sherita Saffer-Campbell: Noah’s Wife
Ed Higgins: Two poems, Silenced by Autumn; and Haying
Tobin Marsh: pulling at the edge of your life
Paula Yup: Faraway Lives
Beverly Shepard: Old Meeting Houses
Peter Anderson: Prairie Crossing
Kenneth C. Leibman: Brother Lawrence, a Sonnet
James W. Newton: Paradox Lost
Helen Weaver Horn: My Grandma Knew What She Was Doing
Dorothy Mack: Desert Flowers

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