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Winner of the 2023 Illumination Book Awards Winner of the 2022 International Book Awards Third Place 2023 Catholic Media Associations Book AwardsBegin with a Question explores how the life of faith is a continuous voyage, launched anew each bright day of the spirit or dark night of the soul. This is a book of contemplation and motion, a journeyoften in stops and startstoward the Divine, a pilgrimage paved with prayer, praise, pause, penitence, and (of course) questions. Urgent and universal, joyful or joyless, tinged with doubt or rinsed with hope, here are honest queries that probe, lift, and lead to discovery. Begin with a Question keeps us moving, seeking, reaching, lifting us out of ourselves to something beyond. Using a variety of fixed forms and free verse, the poet examines our relationship to the one who asks, "Who do you say that I am?" A book for seekers, doubters, and believers alike, these poems bring us face to face with anguish, anger, awe, and adoration. They give us permission not to demand answers, but to follow the questions that lead to the Alpha and Omega, to the I AM that keeps us spiraling along this twisting path toward God. Begin with a Question is published under Paraclete Presss "Iron Pen" imprint. In the book of Job, a suffering man pours out his anguish to his Maker. From the depths of his pain, he reveals a trust in Gods goodness that is stronger than his despair, giving humanity some of the most beautiful and poetic verses of all time. Paracletes Iron Pen imprint is inspired by this spirit of unvarnished honesty and tenacious hope.

"The word angel means messenger and the title poem of this book, Angels Everywhere, presents the idea that what I often glimpse is a flicker of glancing light, as if a heavenly being is darting in and out of my viewing, allowing me entry into a realm beyond my physical, experiential worldbrief revelatory messages from somewhere beyond. Im hoping that as you read these poems, (more than once, aloud if possible) something like Wordsworths intimations of immortality will enliven your own perceptions of the world as you experience it. Maybe your own fleet of angels will show up!" Luci Shaw, from the Introduction Angels Everywhere is published under Paraclete Presss Iron Pen imprint. In the book of Job, a suffering man pours out his anguish to his Maker. From the depths of his pain, he reveals a trust in Gods goodness that is stronger than his despair, giving humanity some of the most beautiful and poetic verses of all time. Paracletes Iron Pen imprint is inspired by this spirit of unvarnished honesty and tenacious hope.

Raising the Sparks, Jennifer Wallaces sixth poetry collection, is inspired by the alignment of Christian and Judaic traditions. The idea of raising the sparks, tikkun olam, comes from 16th century mystical Judaismthe belief that, if people worked to "gather or raise the sparks" from the sacred vessels that shattered at the moment of creation, a repair of the world from its initial splitting would be complete. It is the duty of each one of us to raise the sparks from wherever they are imprisoned and to elevate them to holiness. Also informing this work is the Jesuit idea of finding God in all things and conversing (without clerical intervention) directly with Jesus. The poems in this collection engage with these theological traditions by witnessing the human joys and challenges of attending to their mandates.Raising the Sparks is published under Paraclete Presss Iron Pen imprint. In the book of Job, a suffering man pours out his anguish to his Maker. From the depths of his pain, he reveals a trust in Gods goodness that is stronger than his despair, giving humanity some of the most beautiful and poetic verses of all time. Paracletes Iron Pen imprint is inspired by this spirit of unvarnished honesty and tenacious hope.

"Cornered by the Dark is a triumph." —Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao W. H. Auden, Jorge Luis Borges, Howard Thurman, Julia Equivel, Thomas Merton, Langston Hughes, Pedr

These poems map a private pilgrimage to nowherefrom the chair to the couch, the couch to the chair. These poems also map a public pilgrimage through the landscape of pandemic, from dire disaster to the hope for healing. They chronicle a year spent in lockdown in a small village just outside New York City.Living amid the Coronavirus catastrophe has occasioned extraordinary outpourings of love over the past year. These poems recognize the public love of healthcare workers, front-line essential workers, people helping their sick and elderly neighbors and family members, school teachers ministering to students and their parentsall signs of our belief in the common good, as well as the many forms of private and personal love we practiceamong them the uncountable emails, texts, social media posts, phone calls, and Zoom calls we share with our beloveds whom we are separated from, making ourselves present to them virtually when we cannot be present physically. These are but a few of the many forms love has takenand continues to takeduring these late days of pandemic.The title of the book, Love in the Time of Coronavirus, is borrowed from Gabriel Garcia Marquezs luminous novel, Love in the Time of Cholera, about the enduring power of love in the face of time and deadly circumstance. This book of poems goes beyond Marquezs primary focus on romantic attachment to consider love in its many forms. As with Marquezs novel, the poems remind us that love flourishes even, and perhaps especially, during times of extremity, when the reality of mortality becomes palpable to us and we begin to see life in the context of eternity. It is then that love becomes the most powerful antidote we have to human suffering.

"Steven has an Irish monks attentiveness to the fragility, mystery, and hidden beauties of things." Peter Leithart, First Things The book is a gathering together of all of Kenneth Stevens poems concerning the island of Iona through the years. These comprise poems that have been published in journals both at home and abroad, and broadcast on BBC Radio. A lengthy introduction tells the story of the forging of those first links with Iona, and those that have come through adult years. This is a book both for those who know and love the island, and for those who may yearn to visit but have not yet had the chance. Its essentially a love song to a precious and an extraordinary place that has been the authors spiritual home from earliest childhood days.

The poems in Flying Yellow cry out for the day just out of reach, the day which unaccountably may in a moment or a season let down a joyful light into the obscurity of human trial. A hopeful belief in heaven and the end of suffering colors these profoundly spiritual, often uneasy, poems. Carried by musical currents that shape her work, Rhodes ventures into what she calls "the good dark stuff" of experiencegood because the dark is where Christ went, willingly, to take it captive. Whether probing the meaning of her own personal traumas or those of historical figures like Mary Rowlandson and Dorothy Bradford; whether peeling back layers of habitual sight to see the natural world of robins and ghost crabs and shorelines more truly, she brings the reader alongside in each surprising encounter to see the possibilities of light.

Learning about the ancient Jewish tradition of midrash, a rabbinic form of textual interpretation that seeks and imagines answers to unanswerable questions, felt to Amy Bornman like a poetic invitation to re-engage with the Bible in a new way. There is a Future: A Year of Daily Midrash an award-winner in the Paraclete Poetry Prize competition grew from a yearlong project to read the Bible daily, and write daily midrashic poems in response to the readingsto honor the text by wondering about, and struggling with, it. By engaging particular passages of scripture across the Old and New Testaments directly, these poems imagine new dimensions of the text, and make vivid connections to the world as it is now and to the authors own lifeemerging at years end with new hope in a future that at times feels impossible, as the days pile on days and the texts enduring questions continue to ring.

"Rejoice, readers, as you receive the generosity of Luci Shaws 76 new grace-infused parable poems. Autobiography once more merges with theology as these poems illuminate in splendored natural detail how the seasons of creation parallel and explain the seasons of her life as a poet. Again and again, these poems shower us with glorious epiphanies from the natural world as it reflects Gods generosity at work such as "springs impossible news of green." These poems confirm that in poetry as in faith "ripeness is all." Like Wordsworth, Luci is celebrated for being a highly gifted landscape poet whose works are rich in imagery from the physical worldmeadows filled with seeds, flowers, and also poems which are like "shoots" in Lucis writing life. Animals, too, great and small (beetles, cricket, and voles to bears and whales) play a major role in Lucis poetics of creation; God is likened to a great bear who leaves paw tracks for us to follow. In their deep faith and vibrant colors and designs, the poems in Generosity might be considered Lucis Book of Kells. We need to be like Lucis father who carried her poems in his briefcase to show his friends." Philip C. Kolin, Author, Reaching Forever: Poems; Distinguished Professor of English (Emeritus), University of Southern Mississippi

This collection of poems engages in new and animating ways with one of the profoundest texts of our past, the Book of Psalms. These poems are Clarkes response to his experience of reading the Psalter through once every month according to Cranmers divisions in the 1549 Book of Common Prayer.

Andalusian Hours: Poems from the Porch of Flannery OConnor is a collection of 101 sonnets that channel the voice of celebrated fiction writer, Flannery OConnor. In these poems, poet and scholar Angela Alaimo ODonnell imagines the rich interior life Flannery lived during the last fourteen years of her life in rural Georgia on her familys farm named "Andalusia." Each poem begins with an epigraph taken from OConnors essays, stories, or letters; the poet then plumbs Flannerys thoughts and the poignant circumstances behind them, welcoming the reader into OConnors private world. Together the poems tell the story of a brilliant young woman who enjoyed a bright and promising childhood, was struck with lupus just as her writing career hit its stride, and was forced to return home and live out her days in exile, far from the literary world she loved. By turns tragic and comic, the poems in Andalusian Hours explore Flannerys loves and losses, her complex relationship with her mother, her battle with her illness and disability, and her passion for her writing. The poems mark time in keeping with the liturgical hours OConnor herself honored in her prayer life and in her quasi-monastic devotion to her vocation and to the home she learned to love, Andalusia.

Luci Shaw is now 90 years old. The author of more than 35 collections of poetry and creative non-fiction over the last five decades, she describes her dedication to this art as a burden to "speak into a culture that finds it hard to listen." This collection of new poemsall composed over the last two yearsis in many ways the culmination of a stunning career.The joy and responsibility of the poet is to focus on particulars within the universe, finding fragments of meaning that speak to the imagination. Ordinary things may reveal the extraordinary for those willing to take time to investigate and ponder. In this fresh collection of poems, Luci Shaw practices the art of seeing, and then writing what she sees, realizing that beauty is often focused in the Eye of the Beholder.Eye of the Beholder is meant to awaken in readers awareness of the extraordinary in the ordinary. They will find in this collection a focus for meditation and be excited into their own imaginative writing.

With poems by Phyllis Tickle, Scott Cairns, Paul Mariani, Anna Kamienska, Fr. John-Julian, SAID, Bonnie Thurston, Greg Miller, William Woolfitt, Rami Shapiro, Thomas Lynch, Paul Quenon, and Rainer Maria Rilke, this anthology spans the first ten years of the poetry series at Paraclete Press. "Paraclete is a house firmly rooted in presending and curating religious poetry as part of the verbal experience that, being couched more deeply in the aesthetic than the didactic, has deep resonance and potent significance for the shaping of the surrounding culture itself. It means the on-going giving away and sharing of God with humility through mystery." Phyllis Tickle (1934-2015)

En Ahora miro la que fui con más amor, reflexiono en clave poética sobre la relación con la imagen y el cuerpo propio, el racismo, la violencia contra las mujeres y el feminismo, la migración, la desigualdad, la violencia y la corrupcion politica; tambien me paseo por la emociones y relaciones que nos atraviesan, que nos rompen o nos fortalecen como el amor, el erotismo, la amistad, la muerte; asi como, por mi relacion con la escritura. Con esta publicacion aspiro a que mi poesia les acompañe y les permita sentir menos soledad en ese proceso de transitar, entender, confrontar y resistir la desigualdad, la discriminacion, la violencia, el dolor y la injusticia; al mismo tiempo que la extiendo como una invitacion, a mirar lo que han sido y lo que son, con mas amor Esther Pineda G.Es sociologa, Magister Scientiarum en Estudios de la Mujer, Doctora en Ciencias Sociales y Posdoctora en Ciencias Sociales egresada de la Universidad Central de Venezuela. Es investigadora en derechos de las mujeres y discriminacion racial.Autora de los libros Machismo y vindicacion. La mujer en el pensamiento sociolosoco (2017). Cultura femicida. El riesgo de ser mujer en America Latina (2019), Bellas para morir. Estereotipos de genero y violencia estetica contra la mujer (2020), Morir por ser mujer. Femicidio y feminicidio en America Latina (2021), Ser afrodescenciente en America Latina. Racismo, estigma y vida cotidiana (2023), El racismo y la brutalidad policial en los Estados Unidos. Del Jim Crow a Donald Trump (2023) y La mujer espectaculo. La convergencia de las narrativas sexistas y feministas en los medios de comunicacion (2024) publicados por Editorial Prometeo.

The Canterbury Tales (written between 1387 and 1400) is Geoffrey Chaucers masterpiece and one of the greatest works of Middle English literature. The book presents a vivid portrait of medieval English society through a collection of stories told by a diverse group of pilgrims traveling from London to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury. To pass the time on their journey, the host of the group proposes a storytelling contest: each pilgrim will tell tales that entertain and teach moral lessons. The pilgrims come from all walks of lifea knight, a miller, a prioress, a merchant, a wife from Bath, and many otherseach revealing their personality, values, and social background through their stories. The tales range from chivalric romances and fables to bawdy comedies and moral allegories, reflecting the variety and complexity of human experience. Chaucers keen observation, humor, and use of vernacular English create a lively and realistic depiction of medieval life. Beyond entertainment, The Canterbury Tales explores universal themes such as love, greed, faith, corruption, and the search for truth. It remains a foundational work in English literature and a timeless study of humanity in all its diversity.

Este nuevo libro de María García Zambrano cierra la trilogía de la que forman parte La hija y Esta ira (Premio de la Crítica Literaria Valenciana al Mejor Libro de Poesía y Premio «Libro del Año» de

La Antioquia original y auténtica está en la prosa literaria y la poesía del siglo XIX hasta mediados del XX. Lo que sigue es un proceso incierto en el incógnito futuro de la nación. La vieja poesía murio y la nueva se demora en nacer porque se requiere el trabajo de muchas personas durante generaciones para llegar a algo que tenga valor perdurable. Concretamente, se necesitan varias generaciones para escribir un poema. Un poema que sea de un pueblo; no la media paginita que escribio esta mañana fulano de tal porque no tenia nada mejor que hacer, y que despues se convertira en basura empastada en los anaqueles de las democraticas bibliotecas publicas, al resguardo del muy discutible concepto de tesoro patrimonial.

Explica la poeta Julieta Valero en el epílogo de Esta ira que las mujeres estamos «desentrenadas para mostrar la ira». «Entonces» —se pregunta— «¿cómo decir, cómo articular una ira que no responde es

El paraíso perdido es una epopeya monumental donde John Milton reinterpreta el Génesis como una tragedia cósmica, enfrentando al lector con los límites del libre albedrío, la obediencia y la ambición. A traves de un lenguaje solemne y visionario, Milton narra la rebelion de Lucifer, su caida desde los cielos y su venganza en forma de tentacion a Adan y Eva. No se trata solo de un relato biblico, sino de una profunda meditacion sobre el orgullo, la perdida y el precio de la conciencia.El poema muestra un universo donde los angeles debaten como estadistas, los demonios erigen imperios en las ruinas y la humanidad nace entre duda y deseo. Satanas, lejos de ser una figura plana, es retratado como el arquetipo del rebelde que prefiere reinar en el infierno antes que servir en el cielo. En ese conflicto nace una de las preguntas mas poderosas de la literatura:¿es la caida la verdadera forma de ascender?Milton convierte el mito en experiencia humana: el lector no solo asiste a la caida del hombre, sino al descubrimiento de la responsabilidad. Es una obra sobre la dignidad de elegir, incluso cuando elegir implica perder.