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Willow Schenwar

Willow Schenwar teaches in the Department of English at The University of Illinois, Chicago. Her writing has appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Tikkun, Passages North, Truthout, and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago alongside Lake Michigan with her partner, son, and cat Zams.

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Religion Dispatches
Travel imparts one with the indelible impression that something is out there. That something may not be the existence of God, but it is certainly the existence of the rest of the world. Plus, it’s harder to kill those you’ve met.
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Religion Dispatches
The best-selling poet in America today was born in Afghanistan, practiced a form of Islam that originated in Iraq, and has been dead for 800 years. How did a white man from Tennessee, who doesn’t read a lick of Persian, make Rumi accessible to mainstream America?
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