title: The Spirit Within Me:: A Collection of Religious and Non-religious Poetry
author: Mrs Andrea Lynn Miles-Stewart
description: I am a proud resident of Baltimore, Maryland where I live with my husband Isaiah. I graduated from Coppin State University in 2008 with a BS in Criminal Justice &amp; Law Enforcement. I am a member of Memorial Baptist Church, where I love studying the word of God. My hobbies are reading, writing,watching and playing sports. I am a mother of six sons and proud grandmother of thirteen grandchildren.
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  ## FIRE SERMON
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## JAMIE QUATRO
  
  Copyright © 2018 by Jamie Quatro
  
  
  Cover design by Gretchen Mergenthaler  
  Cover photograph © Jackie Robinson/Arcangel
  
  
  Portions of this novel have appeared previously, in different form, in the
  Oxford American, Ecotone, Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial,
  and The Sewanee Review. Poetry in Section Two first appeared in Blackbird
  (“The Withholding”), Oxford American (“Protestant Worshipper”), the
  Mississippi Review (“Foreknowledge”), and in BOMB’s Word Choice poetry series
  (“Prayer”).
  
  
  Passages from Bluets used with permission by Maggie Nelson. Excerpts from “The
  Spirit and the Soul” from Collected Poems by Jack Gilbert, copyright © 2012 by
  Jack Gilbert. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf
  Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights
  reserved; Excerpts from “T