I am grateful for all the poets who submitted their work for the contest. Every year we get poems from all over the United States, and even across the world, about any number of topics.
Poetry
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The famous poet nuns who filled the pages of America magazine
In mid-century America, nuns and sisters were writing poems, and publishing them in the nation’s finest publications.
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Unfinished Masterpiece
Rewrite God’s poems
until the mob in us
froths at the mouth.
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The Dumpster Fillers
What is it
you cannot stand to live with
any longer? Toss it in
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Even the Cracks
what he called my crab consciousness,
merely his description for my either avoiding or digging
a hole
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Finding the divine in anything and everything: A review of the year in poetry
With great poetry God is not only in the details, but in the details of the details.
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Holy Thursday
I can sit at your
feet, and feel the troubled
waters of my body
still
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Photo: New York World’s Fair, 1965
The art didn’t impress us
as much as the sidewalk
moving us along
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Crossing the Jordan
maybe she woke up, a piece of manna in her bony fist