CONTENTS
COVER ARTIST’S INTERVIEW & ART FEATURES
Cameron Alexander Lawrence on Tactility and Vibrant Color 11
interviewed by
Susan L. Miller
Carmen Kern Under the Stormy Skies 19
Fr. Andrew More O’Connor fresco modeled after Piero della
Francesca’s handmaid of the
Queen of Sheba 40
Nick Patten In the Air 123
FEATURED POET
Judith Valente on “Poems of Place” 13
English Mass, St. Boniface Church,
Munich 15
Living Beside Dachau 16
Vine Growing Out of Stone
Hermitage, Mount Maiella, Italy 16
Ferragosto 17
At Thomas Merton’s Hermitage on
His Death Anniversary 18
FEATURED TRANSLATIONS
Vayda Pascarella Make it New: Re-Translations of
Five Poems in Ezra Pound’s
Cathay 20
Kutsugen Song of the Bowmen of Shu 22
trans. by Ezra Pound
Author Unknown Pick Ferns
trans. by Vayda Pascarella 23
Mei Sheng The Beautiful Toilet
trans. by Ezra Pound 24
Author Unknown Green, Green Riverbank Grass
trans. by Vayda Pascarella 24
Rihaku The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance
trans. by Ezra Pound 25
Li Bai Complaint on Jade Steps
trans. by Vayda Pascarella 25
Rihaku Taking Leave of a Friend
trans. by Ezra Pound 26
Li Bai Sending Off a Friend
trans. by Vayda Pascarella 26
Rihaku Leave-Taking Near Shoku
trans. by Ezra Pound 27
Li Bai Sending a Friend Off to Shŭ
trans. by Vayda Pascarella 27
IN MEMORIAM
Martha Silano (September 2, 1961 – May 5, 2025)
Kelli Russell Agodon Because Everything You Do is Brave 28
Tina Kelley Something to Do with Birds 28
Ronda Piszk Broatch Abecedarian in Which Martha
Appears in My Lilac Bush 30
Susan Blackwell Ramsey Rondeau for Marty 30
Jeannine Hall Gailey Internet-Age Elegy: After You Die,
I Promise Not to Forget You 31
Don Bogen From an Editor 32
Jane Greer (May 25, 1953 – July 22, 2025)
Mary R. Finnegan Loss and Bliss 33
Katy Carl Elegy 34
Jennifer Martelli (February 18, 1962 – September 25, 2025)
Cindy Veach Of course you wrote your own
obituary 34
Subhaga Crystal Bacon with
Brandel France de Bravo & What’s Missing Crashes, Waves
Barbara O’Dair Against Ireland 35
Kevin Carey Horror Movie 36
Marjorie Tesser Three for Jenn 37
JP Howard Double Etheree Praise Poem
Elegy for Jenn 38
January Gill O’Neil You Are Glowing Right Now. And
When You Die, That Light
Disappears 39
POETRY
Susanne Paola Antonetta Big Bang or, þings Guessed at in that
Huge Dark 41
Ned Balbo Discovery of the Chinchilla 42
Bruce Beasley From “The Goodly Wings: On the
Book of Job” [How she died it is] 43
Scott Cairns Metakósmos [Μετακόσμος] 44
Seán Carlson Ant Hill 45
Joseph Chelius Used CD and Record Store as
Religious Experience 46
Robert Cording Waiting 47
Brad Davis Negotiation 48
Alice de Chambrier
trans. by Laura Nagle The Red Moon 49
Jessica de Koninck Pause, Replay, Fast Forward 50
CX Dillhunt How to Hold Your Prayer Book 51
Dante Di Stefano Psalm With Motives Still Unknown 52
Lynn Domina Without Parole 54
Sean Thomas Dougherty The Poverty of English 55
Ann Fisher-Wirth In Rehab There Were No Open
Windows 56
Mary Fitzpatrick Mark 14:52 57
Carly T. Flynn Thinking Vermeer 58
Katherine Gekker DC Winter | Knoxville: Summer
of 1915 59
Jana-Lee Germaine A Murmuration, a Chattering 61
Maria Giura Praise the Noisy World 62
Mia Schilling Grogan Here we are! 63
Maryanne Hannan Between Earth and Blossom, A Stem 64
Katie Hartsock When Indiana Sleeps 65
Paul Jaskunas If You Were a Mountain 66
Marci Rae Johnson El Santuario de Chimayó 67
Sandi K. Johnson Liberian Chickens 68
Desmond Francis Xavier
Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé Pietà: Contemplation III 69
Victoria Rose Kopishke Writer’s Retreat 70
Nancy Krygowski One Long Table 71
April Lindner Bust of my Mother 72
Margaret Mackinnon Phoebe Anna Traquair Paints
Herself at Pentacost 73
Mary Grace Mangano Grief Like a Fire 74
Paul Mariani Elegy for Emely 75
Paul Martin Bread Crumbs 76
Elisabeth Murawski Airborne, Joseph of Cupertino 77
Steve Myers Photo: Two Deaths in Gaza 78
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell Horse Fire 79
Brennan O’Donnell The Shell & the Cross 80
Christine Valters Paintner “This world is pregnant with God” 81
Kyle Potvin Corn Bunting Abecedarian 82
Gina Pribaz Adoration 83
Dana Ranga
trans. by Helen Chang Aquarium 84
Skip Renker The Missing 85
Janna Schledorn Self-Portrait—A Blessing 86
Eva Skrande Moving 87
Bill Stadick The Day Surveillance Capitalism
Tried and Failed to Sell
Me a House 88
Julie Cadwallader Staub Stabat Mater 89
Maxine Susman After “Adam and Eve
Pentaptych #5” 90
Carey Taylor Even Stars Exhaust Their Ability
to Burn 91
Maria Terrone I Wore My Grief 92
David Thoreen Gee 93
Cara Valle Parking Garage at the Children’s
Hospital 94
Philip Vassallo Contradictions of Our Time:
A Sestina 95
Anastasia Vassos In the Life Before This One 96
Jane Wageman Upon listening to a Cistercian monk
reflect on Gracie Adams and the
wounds of Christ while wandering
around Bowling Green, Ohio 97
Gail White The Strange One 99
Erin Wilson Praise 100
James Matthew Wilson Dream of My Brother’s Funeral 101
Linda Mills Woolsey Reading Hopkins in the Best Buy
Parking Lot 102
Carolyne Wright Cautious 103
INTERVIEWS
Janine Molinaro “A Way of Saying Yes”: Samuel Hazo
on the Communion of Poetry and
Faith 104
Anne-Marie Oomen Evidence of the Divine: Landscape,
Dream and Transformation in the
Poetry of Linda Nemec Foster 113
BOOK REVIEWS
Tara Propper The Hours
by Matthew J. Andrews 124
Brent House Which Seeds Will Grow?
by Andrew J. Calis 126
Sofia M. Starnes Dimestore Saints
by David Craig 128
Carl M. Jenks Slow Wreckage
by Barbara Crooker 130
Brad Davis The Long Invisible
by Michael Dechane 132
Jerry Harp Sweet Hunter: The Complete
Poems of St. Theresa of Ávila
trans. by Dana Delibovi 134
Whitney Rio-Ross Peregrinatio
by Gloria Heffernan 136
Alan Berecka writing the stars
by Lou Ella Hickman 138
A. M. Juster To Heaven’s Rim: The Kingdom
Poets Book of World Christian Poetry
edited by Burl Horniachek 140
Julie L. Moore Questionable Baggage
by Marci Rae Johnson 143
Maryann Corbett naked ladies: New and Selected Poems
by Julie Kane 145
Laura Reece Hogan House of 49 Doors
by Laurie Klein 147
Peggy R. Ellsberg Thin Places & Sacred Spaces
edited by Sarah Law 149
Gloria Heffernan Dining Al Fresco with My Dog
by Sue Fagalde Lick 151
Paul Mariani Seeing Things
by Marjorie Maddox 154
Sarah Cortez Outside the Gates of Eden
by David Middleton 157
Lynn Domina Variations in Blue
by Adela Najarro 159
Eric Cyr The Locust Years
by Paul J. Pastor 161
Justin Lacour Or/And
by Jeannine Marie Pitas 164
Jane Clark Scharl Barley Child
by Greg Rappleye 166
Mia Schilling Grogan 100 Great Catholic Poems
edited by Sally Read 168
Linda Mills Woolsey The Perfume of Pain
by Suzanne Underwood Rhodes 171
Michael Dechane All at Once
by Jack Ridl 173
Steven Searcy Be Radiant
by Jacob Riyeff 176
Wendy Galgan Waiting for the Mercy Ship
by Lois Roma-Deeley 179
Margaret Rozga The Saints of Repetition
by Marjorie Stelmach 181
LIFE’S WORK
J. D. Schraffenberger Spending Time with Martha Silano 184
Ann Ritter Joseph Bathanti: A Life Redeemed
Through Poetry 194
POETS’ BIOGRAPHIES 209