Raylene Hinz-Penner
raylene.hinz-penner@washburn.edu
Lecturer Raylene Hinz-Penner received her B.S. and M.A. degrees from Kansas University and an MFA from Wichita State University in 1995, before joining the Department in 2003. Her graduate training and teaching specialties are in contemporary American literature and creative writing, poetry. She recently finished a nonfiction, genre-blurred book, Searching for Sacred Ground: The Journey of Chief Lawrence Hart, Mennonite (2007), tracing the life journey of an Oklahoma Cheyenne peace chief. I teach literature and writing for the joys of reveling in both story and language, their joint capacity to show us our humanity, our vulnerability. She quotes as her creed the lines from Theodore Roethke’s oft-taught villanelle, “The Waking”:
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.”
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