Hey everyone. This is Matt Lynch from the OnScript Podcast, and we've got some really exciting

news to share. In just a week or two, we'll be launching a new podcast called Inverse, as in Poetic

Verse. And it's hosted in its first season by Brent Strawn of Duke Divinity School. This is a new kind of podcast for us, and I'm

really excited about its format and style and how it's taken shape and develop. Mary Oliver,

in her poem about poetry, says, That Pretty Little Beast a poem has a mind of its own. And it's that mind of its own quality that

really thrills me about this podcast and about biblical poetry more broadly. Because poetry has

that ability to take us in unexpected directions and that ability to do unexpected things and meet us in surprising ways. Inverse explores

the intersections of biblical and contemporary poetry. It's less straightforwardly educational,

as in the format of our current podcast on script and biblical world, though you'll definitely learn a lot.

I'd say it's more experiential. It's designed to bring you into the world of biblical poetry.

And we'll help draw out those lines of connection with contemporary poetry in the contemporary

world. And Brent is so good at this, and that's why I've asked him to do it. And we've been

working hard behind the scenes over the

last year to develop this for you and as we start I want to give a few shoutouts first of all

keith willis produced these episodes beautifully choosing music and weaving sounds together

to produce this first season so thank you so much And also, Alan Files has been really helpful

behind the scenes in setting up the website and all the tech that goes on in the background. So thank

you, Alan. Also, I want to say that I was inspired to do this podcast after hearing NPR's

Poetry on Bound podcast hosted by Padre Gautuma. And I just want to acknowledge that inspiration up front and

point you to it. And I want to acknowledge another podcast, too, that's called The Inverse

Podcast, hosted by Jared McKenna and Drew Hart. And I hadn't initially realized that there's a

podcast called Inverse. Fortunately, it has a slightly different name. Ours is Inverse,

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