Presence held its Third Annual Preview Reading on Saturday, January 18, 2020, after the 5:15 p.m. vigil Mass at The Church of St. Paul the Apostle, Columbus Avenue, NYC. We are grateful to Paulist Father Thomas Holahan, who made the space available to us and joined us to read his poem, “Notre Dame Aflame,” in Presence 2020.
Founding editor, Mary Ann B. Miller welcomes the audience and introduces the sections of the issue
that were represented during the reading, including the translations section, new poems, book reviews and elegies in the In Memoriam section.
Assistant editor, Marjorie Maddox
welcomed the poets and read poems by Sean Thomas Dougherty and Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, featured poets in Presence 2020.
Paola Corso reads “Praying the Steps” in Presence 2020.
Fr. Thomas Holahan reads “Notre Dame Aflame” in Presence 2020.
Madeline Infantine reads “Good Friday at Immaculata” in Presence 2020.
Joel Allegretti reviewed Gerry LaFemina’s poetry collection The Story of Ash (Anhinga Press, 2018) and read a poem by LaFemina from this book.
Jefferson Holdridge reads “The Franciscan Hills” in Presence 2020.
Tina Kelley reads “Epithalamion for Jesus and the Springfield Community Church” in Presence 2020.
Susan L. Miller reads her elegy for Marie Ponsot, entitled “Compass Rose” in Presence 2020.
Jennifer Martelli reads “I Address My Catho-alcoholism” in Presence 2020.
MaryAnn L. Miller reviewed Pere Jacques de Foiard-Brown and Marilyn Nelson’s The Baobab Room (Little Bound Books, 2019) in Presence 2020.
Madeleine Mysko reads “Pieta” in Presence 2020.