Female Divinity

Pat Parnell is a poet, retired professor, and lifelong Catholic who was dissatisfied with the traditional image of God as male figure with overwhelmingly male characteristics. Pat has found female imagery in the Bible and in other faith traditions. She's used them to deepen and broaden her own faith and she's put them into a series of poems. This interview from October 2002 is about her collection, Snake Woman and Other Explorations, Finding the Female in Divinity . Pat has a new book of poetry out this month called Talking with Birches.