About Terry Minchow-Proffitt

I'm a retired pastor who now enjoys a kind of "free-range" ministry as a writer, speaker, spiritual director, seminar/retreat leader and pastoral counselor. Poetry has become a big and vital part of my calling. I'm a very deliberate reader and writer. I see poetry as a way of prayer, of paying attention, of listening to what rises up to address me out of silence and solitude. My hope is to manifest the lived reality of the deep and abiding Mystery of God's Presence, both as darkness and light. I was raised in the Mississippi Delta of eastern Arkansas, and much of my poetry embodies the voice, themes, and landscape of my upbringing in the small towns of West Helena and Dyess.