“Grafting Apple Shoots” by Betsy Howard

In this episode of the Reformed Journal Podcast, Rose Postma talks with Betsy Howard about her poem “Grafting Apple Shoots.” Betsy serves as an assistant professor of modern literature at Bethlehem College in Minneapolis, MN and as an affiliate researcher at the University of Minnesota with the Center for the PreModern World. Her recent academic work has included essays in Religion and the Arts and Victorian Poetry. Her creative essays have appeared in Between Two Cities (Anselm House) and Writing in the Margins (University of St. Thomas) and my review of Joseph Bottum’s Second Spring recently appeared in Eikon. She has published poems in Ekstasis, Ad Fontes, The New Verse Review, Summit Avenue Review and Tower Light.