Presence 2019
Contents
Mary Ann B. Miller Editor's Statement 10
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Rick Mullin on Behind the Choir 11
FEATURED POET
Daniel Tobin from This Broken Symmetry (Rue du Paradis) 13
(Font) 14
(Riverside) 15
TRANSLATIONS & ADAPTATIONS
Sharif S. Elmusa & The Life of Photos
Gregory Orfalea by Ibrahim Qa'duni 16
from Dark Images
by 'Abboud Sam'u 17
A Door That Does Not Slap
by Wael al-Nassir 18
Like a Bull Going Left & Right
by 'Abir Abd al-Wahid 18
Life is Flight
by Lena 'Atfa 19
Katie Farris & The Beginning of a Beautiful
Ilya Kaminsky Day (A Symphony)
by Daniil Kharms 22
A Man Falls Asleep
by Daniil Kharms 23
A Fairytale from the North
by Daniil Kharms 23
Andrew Frisardi Dante to Guido Cavalcanti 24
Garrett Hongo from the Shinkokinshū
by Saigyō, Jakuren, Shunzei, and
Fujiwara Toshinari no Musume 25
Garrett Hongo from Japanese American
interment camps
by Muin Ozaki and
Sojin Takei 27
Susan McLean Autumn
by Rainer Maria Rilke 29
Saint Sebastian
by Rainer Maria Rilke 29
Pablo Medina Cardboard Dream
by Rafael Alcides 30
Farewell
by Rafael Alcides 31
Christine Valters
Paintner You Are Here
after Rilke 32
Jeannine M. Pitas I'm alone in the night
by Selva Casal 33
Like a shipwreck
by Selva Casal 34
Jon M. Sweeney Inhere
after Meister Eckhart 36
Wally Swist Of the Wedding at Cana
after Rilke 37
Consolation of Mary with
the Resurrected Christ
after Rilke 38
IN MEMORIAM
Maryann Corbett Funeral Road Trip 39
Rick Mullin Third Sancerre for
Timothy Murphy 40
Gail White For Timothy Murphy 41
James Matthew Wilson At Middle Age 42
Marjorie Maddox Photo with Bald Heads 43
Susan L. Miller Et In Arcadia Ego 45
Julie L. Moore Hummingbird 47
POETRY
Joseph Bathanti CiCi's 48
Jill Peláez Baumgaertner Magdalene 49
Alan Berecka Note to my Future Self, 51
Tim Bete, OCDS Lost Things 53
Kathleen Bradley The Catholics 54
Pat Brisson Response to Today's Gospel 55
Debra Bruce Sister Edward's Lunchroom
Blessing 57
Mary Buchinger A Broken Sonnet for the
Sparrow Trapped in the
Interfaith Center on the 3rd
Floor of the McCormick Building
at UMass Boston Overlooking
the Harbor 58
Roxana L. Cazan This Is How To Paint Icons
At Agapia Monastery, Neamţ
County, Romania 59
Yuan Changming Light vs. Shadow: A Recursive
Poem 61
Erica Charis-Molling Lena Waithe speaks to her
cape of many colors 62
Richard Cole Manifest Destiny 63
Barbara Crooker Petite Marie 64
Joanna Currey Sunday, Gratuitous 65
Jim Daniels Gospel 66
P. S. Dean Lent 67
Jessica G. de Koninck Crazy Eights 68
Lynn Domina A Failure of Imagination 70
Sharif S. Elmusa Companions, Or Clouds 71
Stephen Gibson On the Everyday Blindness
of Mortality 73
Dominic Gideon The Savior in Starbucks 74
Maria Mazziotti Gillan Apparitions 75
Ed Granger Nickel Mines, PA 76
Maryanne Hannan Beleaguered Church Hears
the Call for Apology 77
Jerry Harp Book of Hours 3 and 6 78
Lois Marie Harrod Three Sisters 79
Anne M. Higgins, DC The End of Daylight Savings
Time 80
Fr. Thomas Holahan The Cabin with a View of
the Mountains 81
Siham Karami Angels 82
Elaine Kehoe Moon Illusion 83
George Klawitter, CSC Hand in Hand 84
Dean Kostos The Coat That Wore a Man 85
Leonard Kress The Relic 86
Michelle Maher Caravaggio's The Death of
the Virgin 87
Paul Mariani What the Waves Kept
Telling Me 88
D. S. Martin How To Listen For God 89
Michael Angel Martín Adoration Chapel Near Me 90
Pablo Medina Canticle of the Deer 91
Orlando Ricardo Menes Ode 92
Philip Metres Zoo Windows 93
Rhonda Miska, OP La Guadalupana 94
Robin Amelia Morris If you cannot pray as yourself 95
Susan Signe Morrison The Third Plague 96
Elisabeth Murawski Psalm 97
Stella Nesanovich Dwelling Among Tombs 98
Matthew C. Nickel Harvesting Potatoes Under
Solar Eclipse 2017 99
Gregory Orfalea California Rain 100
Barry Peters Surveillance 101
Daye Phillippo Thunderhead 102
Mia Pohlman A Man Who is a Stranger
Comes to Visit 103
Christopher Poore Léon Morin, Priest 105
Dennis Rhodes Our Housemate 106
Michael D. Riley Halo 107
Margaret Rozga Full of Grace 108
Lisa Toth Salinas To the New Girl at the
Women's Shelter 109
Nicholas Samaras Afterlife 111
Janna Schledorn Daniel the Prophet Talks
to a Psychologist 112
Martha Silano The hands of all my mistakes 113
Rita A. Simmonds You Can't Take the Dead 114
Richard Spilman Finding God 115
Sofia M. Starnes Dizain 11: Miracle 116
Sheryl St. Germain Prayer for One in Recovery 117
Sophia Stid Notes on the Burghers of
Calais: Stanford Memorial
Church 119
Carole Stone Looking for a Cure 120
Jacob Stratman watching Mark Twain's Is He
Dead? with my son 121
Maxine Susman Yom Kippur in the Mountains 122
Maria Terrone A Theft 123
Brian Volck Emmaus 124
Mark C. Watney Church Going Under a
Jacaranda Tree 125
R. Bratten Weiss Sunday Worship 126
Paul Willis McKinley Springs 127
Aliesa Zoecklein Bible Scholar's Lecture 128
INTERVIEWS
Jerry Harp Tinkering, Texts, and Divine
Excess: An Interview with
Kimberly Johnson 129
Mark S. Burrows "Hungering for the Emptied
God": An Interview with Daniel
Tobin on a New Collection
Exploring the Person and Work
of Simone Weil 137
BOOK REVIEWS
Lynn Domina We Became Summer
by Amy Barone 147
Cydnee Devereaux The Virginia State Colony for
Epileptics and Feebleminded
Molly McCully Brown 150
Paul Mariani The Chance of Home
by Mark S. Burrows 152
Margaret Rozga Night Unto Night
by Martha Collins 155
Jake Oresick Street Calligraphy
by Jim Daniels 157
Michael P. Murphy Dear Pilgrims
by John F. Deane 160
Ned Balbo Single Bound: Krypton
Nights / Amazon Days
by Bryan D. Dietrich 166
CX Dillhunt Stichomythia
by Tyler Farrell 170
Mary Ladany The Lake Michigan Mermaid
by Linda Nemec Foster
& Anne-Marie Oomen 175
Ned Balbo The Best American Poetry 2018
ed. by Dana Gioia 177
Luke William Magdalene
by Marie Howe 181
Angela Alaimo O'Donnell Tropic of Squalor
by Mary Karr 183
Susanne Paola Antonetta The Night's Magician: Poems
about the Moon
ed. by Philip C. Kolin
& Sue Brannan Walker 188
Juditha Dowd Cures for Hysteria
by MaryAnn L. Miller 190
Shanna Powlus Wheeler Full Worm Moon
by Julie L. Moore 193
Jeremiah Webster The Five Quintets
by Micheal O'Siadhail 196
Michael Angel Martín Before the Burning Bush
by Brian G. Phipps 198
Tyler Farrell A Stone to Carry Home
by Andrea Potos 200
Mia Schilling Grogan What Will Soon Take Place
by Tania Runyan 203
Kim Bridgford Beyond All Bearing
Susan Delaney Spear 206
Maryanne Hannan The Consequence of Moonlight
by Sofia Starnes 209
Jim Daniels Gloved Against Blood
by Cindy Veach 212
Mike Aquilina The Stranger World
by Ryan Wilson 216
LIFE'S WORK
Joshua Hren "Faith's Ardor in [an] Air-
Conditioned Tomb": Dana
Gioia's Sights of the Unseen
in a Secular Age 219
Susan L. Miller Extraordinary Spirit: The
Poems of Anya Krugovoy
Silver 228
Kathleen Marks The Charlotte Poems of
Richard Wilbur and the
Shape of a Marriage 239
POETS’ BIOGRAPHIES 248