Scott Cairns is the director of the creative writing program at the University of Missouri. His newest book is The End of Suffering (Paraclete Press, 2009). Here, he reads his poem, "This the Morning," from the December 2009 issue of Sojourners.
This appears in the December 2009 issue of Sojourners
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