Ep. 112: Highlighted episode: Reimagining Job with Diane Glancy, distinguished American poet and author

Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast

Nov 24 2025 | 00:41:28

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Show Notes

Diane Glancy is a prolific and acclaimed poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and professor emeritus at Macalester College. Her awards include the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book, the American Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas. In 2018, Publishers Weekly named her book Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears one of the ten essential Native American novels. Today, we discuss her 2020 poetry collection Island of the Innocent: A Reconsideration of the Book of Job.

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