2023 Winter Collection

2023 Winter Collection

The Winter Collection

Part Two of the Winter Collection



Paying My Way to the Promised Land

Yi Ning Chiu on Manifest Destiny & the Art of Richard Mayhew

The Life that is Deeper than Disaster

Kellie D. Brown on the Wisdom and Witness of Survivor Trees

The Cure Found in Beholding

Strahan Coleman on Moving Beyond a Consumeristic Mindset of Communion

Swimming in the Great Mystery

Colette Eaton on the Ocean’s Unknowable Depths & the Exploration of Theology

The Running, Dancing God

Heather M. Surls on the New York City Ballet & Coming Home to the Father


Part One of the Winter Collection


All Mysteries and All Knowledge

Christina Gonzalez Ho on the Half-Learned Language of Prophecy

Ecstatic Hunger

Sharon Rose Christner on Brothers & Heaven’s Many Breads

Literary Haunts

Sean O’Hare on Formative Texts & the Memory of Place

Good Termination

Rachel Rim on Leave-Taking and a Vocation of Goodbyes

Theatre of the Mind

Abbey von Gohren on Private Theatrics & White-Washed Tombs

Sheltered by the Beautiful

Henry Lewis on a Life in Criminal Forensics & Classical Music

Dark Architecture

Hannah Hinsch on the Heart’s Electricity & Home’s Eternity

Seizing Fatherhood

John Mark Guerra on Bearing Illness and Being a Good Dad


Poetry of the Winter Collection


Alan Altany | Old Age

Zachary Bartles | Christ Sometimes Hungers in the Museum Also

Aaron Belz | My Acolyte

Cameron Brooks | Icarus Flashback

Jonathan Chan | prayer (xv)

Maya Clubine | Blessing the Sugarbush

Eric Colburn | In which I pour out my complaint

Noah J. Craig | Adam the Third

Mary Kate Conner | Triptych of Woman

John F. Deane | As One

Richard Decker | Today

Olga Dugan | The Pearl Merchant’s Ode

Phil Flott | His Origin is From Old

Anna Freer | florence

Oladejo Fabolude | The Return

Mia Schilling Grogan | Authority

James Hannon | The Bishop of Armagh

Lory Widmer Hess | Geode

Rachel Hicks | A Prayer: On Synthetic Snowflakes

Joel Holland | Watching Winter

Desmond Kon | Ordinary Time

Lee Kiblinger | Postlude

Justin Lacour | Malachi 3:24

Zina Gomez-Liss | Sorrow

Linda McCullough Moore | Want and Plenty

Haydin Olivia Oeschle | Damascus

Maggie Philpot | New

Stacia Priscilla | Motherland

Tara Propper | Nocturnes, Op. 9 No. 1

Royal Rhodes | Easter Light

Abby Roberts | A Person Made

Amanda Ryan | To the House on 134th, a Ghazal

John Savoie | If One

Nicholas Samaras | And the Evening and the Day Was the First Day

Steven Searcy | In the Shade of the Black Walnut

Luci Shaw | Scarlet

Dan Sheehan | Floater

Jordan Sleed | Like a Child

Tamara Nicholl-Smith | Mid-Lent

Sarah Spradlin | We Who Wait for Miracles

Charissa Sylvia | Parallel Time

Claudia Stanek | Trust and Obey

Stacia Littlefield | Covered

Zach Washburn | Babel

Melissa Marquez Weaver | Benediction for a Listener

Paul J. Willis | Visiting Poet


Jeri Jones Sparks | January-born

Grace Shaw | Say it Like Flowers

Mike Dillon | Another Country

Bethany Chez | Lost Bird Sestina

Slava Konoval | Year of Darkness

Nicole Rollender | After Not Drinking Anymore

Marly Youmans | Scrín-dream

Blake Victor Kent | de(a)scent

Andrew Mauzey | Baptism on the Santa Ana

Raisa Anan Mustakin | Pedestal

Marie Trotter | Older Brother

Nate Wilbert | you are

Sito Sasieta | Ghazal

Katherine Lee | There is No Such Geometry

Susan Francino | Nostalgia for a Trip to Turkey

Alexis Ragan | Hen's Dwelling

Mattingly A. Gerasimovich | Gravy on a White Tablecloth

Ethan C. Jones | Liebe

Mary Madeline Schumpert | The Aftermath

Richard Pierce | After Reading Psalm 6

Jess Hetherington | City of God

Jesse Butler | A Strand of Sound

Elizabeth Hudgens | i hate it when

Stephanie Stampfer | The Thorn That Will Not Leave My Flesh

Calvin VanErgens | I Know

Carreen Raynor | the present

Lauren Hall | add oil

Cole Hartin | Picking Strawberries in the Fog

Joseph Phelan | La Niña Patterns

Deborah J. Shore | By and By

Noah Thomas | You Had to Be There

Sharon Jones | In Alegciras

Kelsi Folsom | Devotion

Timothy Tarkelly | Saint Francis Ministers to the Owls at Rogue River