Katy Bowser Hutson – Now I Lay Me Down to Fight

‘Cancer is an overgrowth, a kudzu:/Tangling and strangling legitimate life.  Chemo is a killing, a burning out: Burning down to ashy carbon, indiscriminately But cancer, did you know that I am a poet’?

Brent talks with poet Katy Bowser Hutson about her new IVP America book called ‘Now I Lay Me Down to Fight: A Poet Writes Her Way Through Cancer’ (second edition).

Katy is a forming member of the children’s band ‘Rain for Roots’.  She is the co-author with Tish Harrison Warren and Fio Paris Oakes of ‘Little Prayers for Ordinary Days’ and a contributing author to ‘It Was Good: Making Music to the Glory of God’.

• (1:20) Why do we need poets?
• (2:30) Cancer;
• (3:45) Katy’s cancer diagnosis;
• (5:15) Poetry as a tool;
• (12:00) ‘Meeting my Oncologist’;
• (13:30) Cancer as a battle;
• (14:30) Bach’s Goldberg Variations;
• (15:15) ‘Sleep As War’;
• (17:15) Jesus in these poems;
• (19:50) ‘Frustration’;
• (21:20) God’s comfort.

Links mentioned in this episode:

www.amazon.com/Now-Lay-Me-Down-Fight/dp/1514007991

www.katyhutson.com

www.ivpress.com

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