4 Poems by Janice L. Freytag

The Way It Begins Before you can write, you’ll need a pen. There is nothing but you in a bare room, so you sacrifice a finger from your left hand, let the bone bleach, then sharpen it on your eye teeth. Before you can write, you’ll need ink. You sacrifice another finger, drain the blood, then sweeten it with spittle. Then you’ll need a scroll. You cut off your arm at the elbow, stretch the skin taut on a rack of bones, secure it with rubber-band muscles. You’ll write for a while, maybe five days or so. When your pen

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Gregory Price Grieve: Video Games and Theology

Gregory is Head, and Professor of the Religious Studies Department at The University of North Carolina Greensboro. As the Director of UNCG’s Network for the Cultural Study of Videogaming and a founding member of the International Academy for the Study of Gaming and

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Brent Rodriguez-Plate: Technology and Embodiment

Brent has presented their research at museums, cultural centers, and universities across Asia, Europe, and North America. Recent books include Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World, A History of Religion in 5 ½ Objects, and the co-edited Routledge Handbook of Material Religion.

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