CONTENTS

ARTIST’S INTERVIEW                                                                         

 Jacqueline Bishop                       on the Fauna series                         10
         interviewed by
Susan L. Miller

FEATURE: LIBRETTO                                                                        

 Dana Gioia                           The Story of Fiat Lux                         13

                                                Fiat Lux: A Work for Soloists,
Chorus and Symphony (text)         19

FEATURED TRANSLATIONS                                                ______

Bänoo Zan                             Translation: Solidarity and
Sisterhood                                      22                    

                                                Untitled
by Fatema Akhtar                            24
Freedom and Law
by Fatema Akhtar                            24
New Year
by Fatema Akhtar                            25
The Great Buddha
by Baran Sajadi                                27
Allahu Akbar
by Baran Sajadi                                28

IN MEMORIAM                                                                                  

Martha Collins                      After Words: Remembering
Lee Sharkey                                    30

POETRY                                                                                             

John Bargowski                         Cash                                                 32

Timothy E. G. Bartel                  Dizain for Guadalupe                     33

Jill Peláez Baumgaertner            Sunday Morning                            34

Mildred Rivadeneyra Bello        Naked Time                                    35

Lisa Breger                                I Need a Poem                                36

Geraldine Connolly                    Above the Bored and Spiritless
of the World                                 37

Nicole M. Coonradt                   Choice Morsels                               38

Kate Deimling                           Why I’m Making Scones                40

                    TFW                                                41

Dana Delibovi                           Reply Requested                              42

Frank Desiderio, C.S.P.            Gold Card Insanity                           43

CX Dillhunt                              After Reading Psalm 31                     44

Hilde Domin                             That’s not it
trans. by Charles Ducey               45

Lynn Domina                           Stories of Saints                                47

Claudina Domingo                  Foreigner
trans. by Ryan Greene                  48

Sandra Duguid                         A Christmas Prayer                           50

Tyler Farrell                              On Reading John Montague
Poems to my Father                       51

Linda Nemec Foster                After the Long Winter of Chemo,
Her Lungs as Trees in Spring        52

Trina Gaynon                          The Whole of It                                52

Jana-Lee Germaine                  Old Wallpaper                                  53

Maria Giura                              Sister of Charity                                55

Marion Goldstein                    The Many Ways to Pray                   57

Mia Schilling Grogan               One mystery                                     58

George Guida                           Team Irreverence                              59

Joan Cusack Handler               The Gazebo                                      60

Maryanne Hannan                   Why I Now Can Stay Churched      61

Lois Marie Harrod                    the light that persists even if           62

Katie Hartsock                          Triolet on the Cigarette Burn
Inside the Library Copy of
C. S. Lewis’ The Screwtape
Letters: Letters from a Senior
to a Junior Devil
                            63

Thomas Holahan, C.S.P.          The Drowning Swimmer                  63

Jason Irwin                                At The Mirror, Shaving                     64

Paul Jaskunas                            Praying After the Night Train          65

Juan Ramón Jiménez               Remorse
trans. by Wally Swist                       66

Tina Kelley                                Lessons from the List of
100,000 Most Hacked Passwords   67

Gerry LaFemina                        The Abbott of the Order
of the Night                                   68

Iris A. Law                                Awakening Psalm                             69

Isabel Cristina Legarda           The Ecstasy of Saint Catherine
of Siena*                                     70
*regretfully “Siena” was misspelled
on the poem’s page of this issue

Sue Fagalde Lick                      What I Failed to Confess                  71

James Littwin                           The Devil’s Midnight                       73

Andrew Lustig                          Unconsoled                                    74

Margaret Mackinnon               A Tomb of a Woman at Saqqara      75

D. S. Martin                              I Draw in Dust a Circle
With My Foot                               76

Paul Martin                              Mother and Autistic Son at Mass     77

Orlando Ricardo Menes         The Poet Richard Crashaw to the
the Sculptor Giovanni Lorenzo
Bernini                                         77

Theresa Monteiro                    Saturday                                          78

Steve Myers                              Powers on Podcast (Merwin
in Mind)                                       79

Madeleine Mysko                     Mother—                                       79

Amy Nemecek                           A Prayer on Rosh Hashanah           80

Tamara Nicholl-Smith             Controlled Burn                             81

Angela Alaimo O’Donnell       The Journey                                    82

Gregory Orfalea                       Gaviota Beach                                 83

Kyle Potvin                               How To Be Fearless                         84

Arthur Powers                          Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones      84

Tara Propper                             Have faith in the boat                     86

Jacob Riyeff                               Vanitas                                            87

Tania Runyan                            For Lizeth, Lost                               88

Nicholas Samaras                      An Idea of Heaven                          89

Alfonso “Sito” Sasieta               Lutheran Half-Gringo vs. Catholic
Andean Woman                           90

Lee Sharkey                               For the Ghosts                                 92

Martha Silano                           When I Can’t Get Out of Bed        92

Eva Skrande                              Humble                                           93

Ryan T. Sliwa, O.S.B.               To a Loon                                       94

Jen Grace Stewart                    Story with a Ghost in It                  95

Robert Stewart                         Peace Be with You                            95

Alfonsina Storni Funeral Notices
trans. Norman Weinstein &
Celia Gil Llamas                            97

Stephanie Howe Sullivan         Stained Glass                                   97

Maxine Susman                         Inside the Curtain                          98

Maria Terrone                           Meditation                                       99

David Thoreen                          Shuttle                                          100

J. C. Todd                                 Marigold                                       100

Pam Vap                                   Of Little Faith                                101

Cindy Veach                              Forgiveness                                   102

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff  In the Grass
trans. Elizabeth Elin &
Oli Grogan                                103

Rebecca Bratten Weiss             Midway in the journey of our life 104

Luke William                             Blindness                                      105

James Matthew Wilson            A Dedication to My Wife             106

INTERVIEWS                                                                                     

Philip C. Kolin                           An Interview with Poet,
Novelist and Editor, Sarah Law    107

Brennan O’Donnell                   “A presence shimmering behind the
dim / Veil of things”: An Interview
with Malcolm Guite                    116

BOOK REVIEWS                                                                               

Mia Schilling Grogan               Taking Root in the Heart, edited
by Jill Peláez Baumgaertner &
Christian Poetry in America Since 1940,
edited by Micah Mattix &
Sally Thomas                             126

Claire Bateman                          Prayershreds
by Bruce Beasley                      128

Jane McCafferty                        Navigating the Reach
by Mary Buchinger                  131

Sheila O’Connor Ambrose       Daughter
by Cortney Davis                      133

Carl M. Jenks                             Death Prefers the Minor Keys
by Sean Thomas Dougherty    136

Lana Portolano                          River, Amen
by Michael Garrigan                 138

Jane Clark Scharl                       The World as We Know It Is
Falling Away
by Jane Greer      140

Tina Kelley                                Testament
by Luke Hankins                        143

Betsy K. Brown                         Wolf Trees
by Katie Hartsock                      145

Jerry Harp                                 The Third Renunciation
by Matthew Henry                   147

Robert P. Miller                        Last Things, First Things, &
Other Lost Causes
by Joshua Hren  149

Rosa Mirna Sánchez                The Spring that Feeds the Torrent
by St. John of the Cross,
trans. by Rhina P. Espaillat         151

Janet McCann                          Our Lively Kingdom
by Julia Lisella                            154

Christopher Honey                  Infinite Arrivals
by Nick Maione                         157

Justin Lacour                            Jesus Merch
by Megan McDermott                160

Jeannine M. Pitas                    The Gospel of Wildflowers & Weeds
by Orlando Ricardo Menes         162

Paul Mariani                            Sleeping as Fast as I Can
by Richard Michelson                 165

Paul M. Bielecki                       Prayer Book for the New Heretic
by Colin Pope                            167

Susan L. Miller                        Old Songs 1980-1981
by Olga Sedakova,
trans. Martha M. F. Kelly           169

Lisa Toth Salinas                    Walking the Mist
by Marjorie Stelmach                171

Brent House                            Divination with a Human Heart
Attached
by Emily Stoddard       174

Daniel Cowper                       One Hundred Visions of War
by Julien Vocance,
trans. by Alfred Nicol                 176

Gloria Heffernan                   Masquerade
by Carolyne Wright                    179

LIFE’S WORK                                                                                     

Laura Chalar                          Antonio Machado’s Footsteps
on the Waves                             182

Robert Lunday                      Vassar Miller: A Poetics of
Pain and Loss                            194

James Matthew Wilson        Micheal O’Siadhail’s Assent            206

POETS’ BIOGRAPHIES                                                              213