Poetic Language and the Calling of Motherhood
Interview with Debra Rienstra, Professor of English
The Other Journal
Issue 7

TOJ: When did your interest in poetry begin?

DR: I was first conscious of the magic of poetry in middle school when a student teacher asked us to read Tennyson’s “The Eagle.”  The sound effects in that little poem blew me away—so much power in so few words.  But I think by that age I had already become attuned to the sounds and beauties of words at church in hymns, sermons, and prayers.

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