We often don’t recognize our influences until much later. It’s the things we’re closest to that we have the most trouble seeing clearly.

Willard Spiegelman’s probing biography, 'Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt,' describes how she rose to meteoric heights in the poetry world relatively late in life.

Micheal O’Siadhail’s ‘Desire’ and Angela Alaimo O’Donnell’s ‘Dear Dante’ are collections designed and erected meticulously in an ancient style that an avid reader is unlikely to see in much contemporary poetry.

A poet and a woman religious whose work often appeared in America, M. Madeleva Wolff, C.S.C., is known for much more than her verse. She was also a pioneer in Catholic education in the United States.

Poems like these at the very least deserve more eyes on them, and we are more than happy to make that happen.

A Homily for Pentecost, by Father Terrance Klein