I tell my familiars
everything but need to scream my head off
in a Bible cocoon
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Poetry
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How Can a Room Breathe Fire
And when the trembling shook the entire house
it woke me into shock
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2023 Foley Poetry Winner: Letter to Myself While Learning to Read
as if you are a child lost
on the water in a boat cast off from its lines
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Building a world and inviting us in: the 2023 Foley poetry contest
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.
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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.
