Authors and Illustrators Database

Born: 02/08/1919  Grandville, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
Died: 05/24/1990
Parents: Jacob G. and Jennie Tuinstra
Spouse: R. Jack Post, an electronics retailer executive
Children: Judith, R. Jack, Jr., Meredith, Douglas, Beth, Barbara

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Sails, Sandals, Saints : a collection of poems about St. Peter, his life and our times	Poetry	Adult	Paedeia Press	1993
	I Had Never Visited an Artist Before : and other poems	Poetry	Adult	Grand Rapids : Being Publications	1973
	Other writings: - Author of more than 50 hymns. Contributor to Grand Rapids Press.		Adult

What is the aim or goal of your writing: In 2nd ed., She says, " In I-can't-tell-how-many-years of writing and of publishing I have found that poetry is human speech made musical. To be 'a successful poem' the lyrics must achieve an intensity of communication. No matter how difficult or 'heavy' the message I am expressing in a poem it has to perform itself beyond its difficulties, beyond the unphrasable but phrased emotion. The poem has to generate its own context. After finishing a poem I sometimes have no idea why I selected each phrase, why I thought it complete, what I intended to do with it and why it 'jells'. I am seldom concerned with the form, the poetic diction, allusions, metaphors, etc., because I have had rigorous training instructed forms, in the use of all these things so that they come naturally. This training in sonnet, ballad, the French forms, etc., I find indispensable to good poetry composition." Contemporary Authors says, "Because my world belongs to God I find my greatest joy in opening up the beauty and order of that world to others. I find each day filled with creativity and am thrilled to be used in even the smallest way to bring others to as enthusiastic a response as I have been granted."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Poet
Other - Author/Versifier of Hymns

MeLCat Links:
http://elibrary.mel.org/search~S15?/aPost%2C+Marie+J./apost+marie+j/-3%2C-1%2C0%2CB/frameset&FF=apost+marie+j&1%2C1%2C

http://elibrary.mel.org/search~S15?/aPost%2C+Marie+J.%2C+d.+1990./apost+marie+j+d+1990/-3%2C-1%2C0%2CB/exact&FF=apost+marie+j+d+1990&1%2C2%2C

http://www.hymnary.org/person/Post_MJ

http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/p/o/s/post_mjt.htm

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