Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
Poets and artists who have considered the Gadarene Swine.
Paul Allen, United States, (b. 1945), poetry includes: Ground Forces. Allen is a poet, song writer and educator. He retired in 2010 as Professor Emeritus at the College of Charleston, after teaching poetry and song lyrics writing for 36 years.
Robert Bly, USA (b. 1926), poetry includes: The Prodigal Son, What the Animals Paid and A man and a woman and a blackbird. Bly is a poet, essayist, editor, translator and activist.
Carlos Cumpián, United States, (b. 1953), poetry includes: ¿Pork Que No? He is a poet, educator and the editor of March/Abrazo Press, an independent publisher of Latino and Native American poetry. Cumpián has also taught high school English in Chicago and he has also taught at Columbia College, Chicago.
William Haliburton Fargason, IV, United States, (b. 1988), poetry includes: Love Song to the Demon-possed Pigs of Gadara. Fargason is a poet, editor and educator. He earned PhD in poetry from Florida State University, where he taught creative writing. He is the poetry editor of Split Lip Magazine.
Jennifer Suzanne Givhan, United States, (b. 1984), poetry includes: Miracle of the River Pig. Givhan is a poet and novelist with ancestral ties to the Mexican-American and indigenous peoples of New Mexico and Texas. She holds MA’s from California State University and Warren Wilson College. She teaches composition at Western New Mexico University. Givhan is the author of five full-length poetry collections and two novels. Her honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and the Frost Place Latin@ Scholarship.
Ramona Herdman, United Kingdom, (1978), poetry includes: “My name is Legion: for we are many”. Herdman is a poet and a committee member for Café Writers in Norfolk, UK. Herdman received a BA and MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, and within a year of completing her studies she published her first collection, Come what you wished for (2003).
Darla Himeles, United States, (b. 1983), poetry includes: Pigs that Ran Straightaway into the Water, Triumph Of. Himeles is a poet, editor and educator. She has a PhD in American literature from Temple University, where she works as the assistant director of the Temple University Writing Center.
John R. Leax, United States, (b. 1943), poetry includes: Meet the Amazing Half Man Half Pig and Given Our Disposition. Leax is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. He was professor of English and poet-in-residence at Houghton College in Houghton, New York from 1968 until his retirement in 2009. His poems, articles, and fiction have been widely published in periodicals and anthologies.
United States, (1807-1882) THE DEMONIAC OF GADARA A GADARENE. He hath escaped, hath plucked his chains asunder, And broken his fetters; always night and day Is in the mountains here, and in the tombs, Crying aloud, and cutting himself with stones, Exceeding fierce, so that no man can tame him! THE DEMONIAC from above, … Read more
Master of the Alexander Romance (the Alexander Master), France (fl. c. 1420-50), Christ heals a possessed man at Gerasa, from the Dutch History Bible, folio 157v (c. 1430).