Presence 2017
Contents
Mary Ann B. Miller Editor's Statement 8
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Holly Trostle Brigham on the Sacred Sisters Project 11
FEATURE POEM
Marilyn Nelson Saint Catherine of Bologna 15
POEMS IN TRANSLATION
Dana Gioia, trans. Autumn Day by R. M. Rilke 18
William Baer, trans. Portrait by Cecília Meireles 19
POETRY
Lisa Ampleman Luminous Mystery V: This is
Ned Balbo His Father's Words 23
Joseph Bathanti Prince Street 25
Mark S. Burrows First Listening 27
Laurie Byro Prayer from the White
Angora 28
Joan Canby The day I accepted 29
Hannah Carr-Murphy If only all of us could be so
lucky 30
Teresa Carson Monica and Augustine,
AD 387 31
Catherine Chandler Traversing the Circle of
Fifths 32
Julie Ann Cook Dies Natalis 33
Maryann Corbett Me and Wittgenstein 34
Praise Ode to the Customer
Service Agent 35
David Craig "It's not about cleverness.
It's about life-- 36
Jim Daniels Night Rural 37
John F. Deane In the Hands of the Living . . . 39
CX Dillhunt Morning Prayer, Composed
Before Venturing Out 40
Kelsey Donk i am not sure 41
Sean Thomas Dougherty Poem with a Line from
Kundera 42
Sandra Duguid Knowing Father 43
Gail Eisenhart Cross of Ashes 44
Linda Nemec Foster Milan, Ohio 45
M. Brett Gaffney Angel in the House 46
Ana Garza G'z Judas at the Mount of Olives 48
Luke Hankins Aid 50
Samuel Hazo Last Words Last 51
Lou Ella Hickman, IWBS two men 53
Anne M. Higgins, DC The Narcissist's Confession 54
Joshua Hren Meditation on Modern
Mathematics and the Music
of the Spheres 55
Larry Janowski, OFM Benevolence 56
Terry Kirts The Suicides of Southern
Illinois 57
Steven Knepper The Broad Top 59
Dean Kostos Mary Magdalene, a Tree 60
Meredith Kunsa The Bone Box 61
Gerry LaFemina Shelter 62
Michael Hugh Lythgoe Road Signs 64
Marjorie Maddox Fifty-Four Percent 66
D. S. Martin St. Paul's Cathedral 67
Michael Angel Martín Elk in Church, Source
Unknown 68
Meredith McCann A Carol after Thomas
Campion 69
Susan L. Miller "Do you believe in the
resurrection of the
body? 70
Rhonda Miska Evidence 72
Carolina Morales Thread 74
Annabelle Moseley In the Cardiologist's Office 75
Timothy Murphy The Meditator 76
Madeleine Mysko Dear One, 77
Angela Alaimo O'Donnell To Be a Pilgrim 78
Jeannine M. Pitas Augustine's Lover 79
Michael D. Riley Metamorphosis 81
Lois Roma-Deeley [Held Hostage by My
Own Good Opinion of
Myself] 83
Edwin Romond In High School Seminary 85
Lauren Marie Schmidt The Rapture 86
Jessica L. Schnepp Assignment 87
Martha Silano At the Villa of the Mysteries 88
Alessandra Simmons Logic 90
Jed Stalker Marital Bestiary: Turtle 92
Sofia M. Starnes Unknowing 93
Maxine Susman Donatello's Penitent
Magdalene 94
Victoria Tester They Crucified a Man 95
John J. Trause Strip Bingo 96
Gail Tyson Soul Fiesta 97
Judith Valente Chemotherapy 98
David F. Vincenti Driving at Night 99
James Matthew Wilson On a Palm 100
Rita Wolpert Mourning Ritual 101
INTERVIEWS
Susan Blackwell Ramsey Six Questions for Brian
Doyle 102
J. D. Schraffenberger “The presence that poetry
requires of us”: An Interview
with Jennifer Perrine 107
BOOK REVIEWS
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell Upcycling Paumanok
by Ned Balbo 119
Janet McCann The Frangible Hour by
Catherine Chandler 122
Kevin Brown Only So Far
by Robert Cording 125
Kathleen Hart Mercy Wears a Red Dress
by David Craig 127
Elizabeth Michael Boyle, 99 Poems: New & Selected
O.P. by Dana Gioia 129
Alan Berecka she: robed and wordless
by Lou Ella Hickman 132
Christine Redman- A Lightness, A Thirst, or
Waldeyer Nothing at All
by Adele Kenny 134
Maria Terrone True, False, None of the
Above
by Marjorie Maddox 136
Sheila M.F. O’Connor- World of Made and Unmade
Ambrose by Jane Mead 138
Daniel Anderson Sand Opera
by Philip Metres 141
Jon M. Sweeney Communion of Saints
by Susan L. Miller 144
Gladys L. Henderson A Ship to Hold the World &
The Marionette’s Ascent by
Annabelle Moseley 147
Dana Gioia "Preface" to Devotions
by Timothy Murphy 149
Sofia M. Starnes Still Pilgrim
by Angela Alaimo
O’Donnell 152
Maryanne Hannan One Crimson Thread
by Micheal O’Siadhail 154
Kate Daniels Scriptorium
by Melissa Range
Great Bear
by Cathryn Hankla 157
Susanne Paola Antonetta Reckless Lovely and
What the Truth Tastes Like
by Martha Silano 162
Susan L. Miller F/poems by Franz Wright 165
Jennifer Ann Jones The Halo by C. Dale Young 167
LIFE'S WORK
Jim Daniels Iconscope: new and selected
poems
by Peter Oresick 171
Susan L. Miller Collected Poems
by Marie Ponsot 173
POETS’ BIOGRAPHIES 179