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Lana Schwebel RememberedFormer assistant professor of religion and literature Lana Schwebel died suddenly while traveling in July 2007. On October 30 a memorial service was held at Sterling Divinity Quadrangle, where a tree was planted in her honor. Her memory will be perpetuated with the establishment by her parents, Philip and Lilly Schwebel, of the Lana Schwebel Lecture in Religion and Literature at the Institute. Her good friend, the poet Martha Serpas, contributed this poem for the occasion.
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A Chaplet for LanaI doubt you are quiet even now And why should you be Now that your voice is unclasped From the coarse line of our limitations Your words freed from their pins Like white-sleeved specters Caught in a breeze or untangled From the strophes of your skirt As you walk unhurried Toward a world bent west Arriving always To the chime of fresh things And what more you can say now That every port is yours Yours our unreachable provinces -Martha Serpas
Martha Serpas is a native of Louisiana. She is the author of two books of poems, Côte Blanche (New Issues, 2002) and The Dirty Side of the Storm (W. W. Norton, 2006). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, Southwest Review, and are included in American Religious Poetry (Library of America). She served as visiting associate professor of religion and literature in 2005 and is on the regular faculty of the University of Tampa.
Contributions in Lana Schwebel's memory may be made to Yeshiva University (www.yu.edu) Barnard College (www.barnard.columbia.edu) Chabad of Irkutsk (www.fjc.ru/irkutsk) or to the charity of your choice.
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