Mary Ann B. Miller Editor's Statement 10

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Ben Fernandez on Awaken 11

FEATURED POET

Robert Cording                     Sea-smoke                                     12
Jacob’s Ladder                              13
In Limbo                                       13
Inside the Drizzle                         14
On the Road                                  15

FEATURED TRANSLATIONS

Ella Yevtushenko                 Patagonia
with Gregory Orfalea           by Mykhayl Semenko                16
Fire
by Mykhayl Semenko                17
Endure, Endure
by Vasyl Stus                              18
Plant a Tree
by Vasyl Stus                              19
The Desolate Ones
by Bohdana Matiyash               19
The Unbearable
by Bohdana Matiyash               20
Silence
by Serhiy Zhadan                      21
Faith
by Serhiy Zhadan                      22
2020
by Anna Malihon                       23
Easter 2022
by Anna Malihon                       24
Above the Abyss
by Ella Yevtushenko                 26
After Making Love
by Ella Yevtushenko                26

IN MEMORIAM __

Dana Greene on Julia Esquivel 28

POETRY

Louise-Victorine Positivism
Ackermann trans. by James Owens 31

Marilyn Annucci To Live Long Enough 32

Ned Balbo A Catholic Dialectic 34

KB Ballentine Every Direction is Grace 36

Bethany Besteman Search for Sense 37

Riley Bounds On Suicide. 38

Elizabeth Michael
Boyle, OP Anawim 40

Debra Bruce Michael 41

Mary Buchinger Mother Teresa’s Doubts 42

Peter Caccavari The Tongue is Also a Fire 43

Andrew Calis Settling the Storm 44

Paul Claudel “Ite Missa Est”
trans. by Alexander Burdge 45

Julie Ann Cook Words Like Leaves, a Tritina 46

Susan Cowger Exaudi Nos, Domini 47

Barbara Crooker Walker Canyon 48

Jim Daniels Sawdust 49

Rubén Darío Song of Hope
trans. by Jonathan Simkins 50

Cortney Davis My Neanderthal Mother 51

Tom Furlong Civil Unrest 53

Nathaniel Lee Hansen The Professor Teaches
Gerard Manley Hopkins’s
“The Windhover” for the
Final Time 54

Jeanine Hathaway A Story of Relics 55

Lorraine Healy It’s 6 a.m. 56

Matthew E. Henry Say pity is not action,
is not love 57

Rachel E. Hicks By Degrees 58

John Hodgen Spit 59

Candice Kelsey That Girl Drinks Grape Soda 60

Riley Kross The Uncounted Hour of Prayer 61

K. T. Landon Chiaroscuro 62

Sheree La Puma I Am A Trespasser Posing
As A Savior 63

Federico García Lorca Cottage of the Weeping
trans. by William Baer 64

James Davis May The Patron Saint of
Heat Waves 65

Jane McCafferty In the Diner 67

Janet McCann Convent Summer 68

Fran McManus, RSM The Catch 69

Robert P. Miller The Redeemer’s Redeemers 70

Susan L. Miller PTSD 71

Elisabeth Murawski Two Latino Men on the
Yellow Line Train 73

Carolyn Oliver Eve and Saint Anaesthesia
Tour the Maternity Ward 75

Kathleen O’Toole The Mystery 77

Paul J. Pastor The Locust Years 79

Francesco Petrarca Canzoniere 62
trans. by A.M. Juster 80

Eric Potter Dispirited 81

Dimitri Psurtsev Lenten Proclamation
trans. by Philip Metres 82

Remi Recchia From Psalm 30 83

Skip Renker Prayer 85

Susanna Rich Midnight Nursing—Liberty
Rehab Center 86

Matthew Richards Hospitality 87

Rainer Maria Rilke               Blue Hydrangea
trans. by Susan McLean          88

Rebecca Moon Ruark Jesus, My Son’s Buckteeth        89

Richard Ryal Lola Invokes 90

Umberto Saba Our Dead Friends
trans. by Alex Taylor 91

Mayra Santos-Febres murex
trans. by Seth Michelson 92

Janna Schledorn Yesterday at the Zoo—
A Blessing 93

Martha Silano We Are All Magnificent 94

Monica Silva Lock and Hasp 95

Julia Snyder Circumspect 96

Marjorie Stelmach What Matters 97

Jeanie Tomasko what is is 98

Brian Volck Nickel Mines 99

Melanie Weldon-Soiset Perichoresis: Divine
Choreography 100

Martin Willetts, Jr. Kaddish 101

Carolyne Wright History of a Villanelle 102

Adela Zamudio Spring
trans. by Laura Nagle 103

INTERVIEWS

Alfred Nicol At Great Expense: How the
Distinguished Poet
Rhina P. Espaillat Came to
Live in the United States 104

Lesley Clinton “To dwell poetically as a way of
life”: James Matthew Wilson
and the Goals of the MFA
Program at the University of
St. Thomas, Houston 118

BOOK REVIEWS

Mia Schilling Grogan From Shade to Shine
by Jill Peláez Baumgaertner 129

Casie Dodd A Living is Not A Life
by Alan Berecka 131

Felicia Squires Call Me Exile
by Aaron Brown 134

Gloria Heffernan Design
by Theresa Burns 137

Tyler Farrell Song of the Middle Manager
by Richard Cole 139

Janet McCann At the Bottom of the Year and
Easter by David Craig 141

Lynn Domina Knucklehead
by Zach Czaia 144

Paola Corso Gun/Shy
by Jim Daniels 147

Michael P. Murphy Naming of the Bones
by John F. Deane 149

D.V. Andrews Meet Me at the Lighthouse
by Dana Gioia 152

Janine Molinaro Bayer The Less Said, the Truer
by Samuel Hazo 154

Fr. Peter Heasley Mercy
by Roísín Kelly 158

Sarah Law Wholly God’s and Americorona
by Philip C. Kolin 160

Jeanine Hathaway Begin With a Question
by Marjorie Maddox 163

J.C. Scharl All That Will Be New
by Paul Mariani 165

Judith Sornberger The Queen of Queens
by Jennifer Martelli 167

Philip C. Kolin Angelicus
by D.S. Martin 170

Wendy Galgan Life List
by Janet Lacey McCann 172

Judith Valente The OCD Poems
by Dennis Rhodes 175

Sally Thomas Like Water in the Palm
of My Hand
by Lois Roma-Deeley 177

Susan L. Miller Saint Agnostica
by Anya Krugovoy Silver 180

Kathleen O’Toole Praise Song for My Children
by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley 183

Brad Davis Somewhere to Follow
by Paul J. Willis 185

Sally Read The Gospel According . . .
to Mary by Carl Winderl 187

Joseph A. Brown, SJ Prometeo
by C. Dale Young 189

LIFE’S WORK

Paul Mariani The Singularity of
Marie Howe’s Poems 192

Jeannine M. Pitas Czeslaw Milosz: Poetry as
Witness and Resistance 203

POETS’ BIOGRAPHIES 214

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