Mary, Queen of Angels 2021
Featuring the winners of the 2021 J.F. Powers Prize in Short Fiction, poetry from Anna Key, Sofia Starnes, and Jacob Riyeff, and visual art from Joseph Macklin. (Double Issue)
Feature
Dante on Love and the Soul
Andrew Frisardi
Poetry
Vittoria Colonna’s Sonnets for Michelangelo, No. 9 and No. 18
translated and recomposed by Anna Key
Village in Southern France
Mike Dillon
Figures of the Horses in Degas
David Keplinger
The Name of God
David Keplinger
Adventus
Sofia Starnes
Brink
Sofia Starnes
Quaint
Sofia Starnes
In the Year of Our Lord
Travis Wright
Each Dawn the Dust
Doug Taylor-Weiss
The Autumn Path
Doug Taylor-Weiss
From the Cairo Genizah
Anne Whitehouse
Dinosaur Prayer
Jason Gebhardt
Search History
Stephen Kampa
On Guilt
Stephen Kampa
Solstice
Matthew Andrews
Columba in Scotland
Michial Farmer
Do You Still Pray
Renee Emerson
New Catechism
Renee Emerson
Level
Renee Emerson
Letter to a Mystic
Sophia Denney
Prayer in I
Sophia Denney
Three Old English Galdru
Jacob Riyeff
On Picking a Spotted Touch-Me-Not
Jacob Riyeff
Fiction
Father of Lies
Lance Nixon
Winner, J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction
Miracle
Chukwuebuka Ibeh
Runner-up, J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction
Ordinary Time
Robert Whitworth
Honorable Mention, J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction
Nonfiction
Cosmic Scope and Expansive Vision: An Interview with Joshua Hren and James Matthew Wilson
R.T.M. Sullivan
“More Organic Than It May Appear:” A Symposium on Creativity and Motherhood
This Is My Body
Suzanne M. Wolfe
On Bending the World to Our Vision
Shemaiah Gonzalez
An Ancient, Fertile Soil
Lindsay Younce Tsohantaridis
Drought, Wildfire, and Lush Garden Imagery: An Interview with Laura Reece Hogan
Jody Collins
Book Reviews
Terrible Grace in Kirstin Valdez Quade’s The Five Wounds
review by Matt Hoberg
Look Up and Raise Your Heads: Don DeLillo’s The Silence
review by Jeffrey Wald
The Age of Infidelity by Valerie Sayers
review by Katy Carl
The Harvest and the Lamp by Andrew Frisardi
review by Tim Bartel
Struck Dumb with Singing by LeighAnna Schesser
review by Jennifer Hartenburg
Finding the World’s Fullness: On Poetry, Metaphor, and Mystery by Robert Cording
review by Tod Worner
Visual Art
Joseph Macklin/Instrumentum Dei
St. Francis Illuminated Prayer
The Beatitudes
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
Saint Josephine Bakhita
Theotokos
Bartolome de las Casas
Memento
Blessed Sacrament
Venerable Augustus Tolton
