Dialogue with Light by Dan Schwerin

“This tiny, jewel-like collection almost functions as a single poem, with sound values, images, and motifs that run throughout the work and speak back and forth to each other. Its narrators converse with themselves, with an unnamed audience addressed as “you,” and with historical and literary touchstones like Martin Luther King Jr. and the ancient poets Rahim and Li Po. They explore and tussle with their place in the spiritual and natural worlds, making keen observations, frank confessions, and lighthearted admonishments that draw us into those worlds alongside them. It’s a work of both philosophy and music, offering us ‘a farm porchlight / to travel straight across the prairie.’”

— Melissa Allen, Editor of Password: the journal of very short poetry

About the Author:

Dan Schwerin’s poetry comes from life on a farm or making his rounds across thirty plus years as a United Methodist pastor in Wisconsin, and now as the bishop of the Northern Illinois-Wisconsin Area of The United Methodist Church. You can find him on Twitter @SchwerinDan or Bluesky @danschwerin.bsky.social.