Join Grace Shaw as she wanders her way through “The Drastic Garden,” a garden that requires nothing but all of you.

In “Gardens Entwined,” Gail Davidson remembers beautiful days tending the soil with her children until those days were but a distant memory in a painful present.

Riley Morsman celebrates the first hint of spring and new life in her stunning poem, “When the Yellow Finally Arrives.”

In her poems "Snowdrops" and "How Long, Oh Lord, How Long," Kassi Wilson awaits a hopeful sign.

Kristine Amundrud finds holy healing in the garden, as she brings her pain to God in “To Touch the Hem” and other poems.

In “Live, Still,” Alicia Hamilton spreads hope through the nature metaphor of a tree with the message that cracked things cannot become the death of us.

In “Eden,” Cheryl Carlos clings to God’s glory in the silence as she yearns for her Eden.

Deborah Rutherford finds healing from depression and deep spiritual awakenings in her gardens in “Hallelujahs in the Garden Bed” and other poems.

In her poem “Song of the Branch,” Christina Moore expresses her love and devotion, clinging to what satisfies her soul.

In her lovely poem “Hallowed is the Breaking,” Rachel Lynne Sakashita ponders the ferocity and necessity of rain and its power to both create and destroy. In “Delight is a Barefoot Sprint,” she draws us into the joyful complexity of delight in the face of nature’s many uncertainties.

Bethany Peck finds peace in her Father’s presence in her poems “Let Me Be Loved” and “The Garden Within.”

Aaron Hann takes notice of a little Greek word and wonders what made Mary turn around in “Mary, Do You Know?”

In “This Side of Heaven,” Anokina Shahbaz reflects on the Garden of Eden that once was and the world in which we find ourselves and how we dwell in the tension of the broken and beautiful. In her poem “How We Arrive at Surrender,” she reminds us that it is in the brokenness of surrender that new life breaks forth.

In “The Grave” and “River,” Zane Paxton finds renewal and resurrection.

In “Superbloom,” Brit McReynolds colors the desert landscape, weaving beauty and endurance in the wastelands.

Kellie Brown meets the memory of her beloved grandmother in the garden in her poem “Flowering Benedictions.”

In “Our Overstory,” Lee Kiblinger reminds us that our stories intertwine as one.