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He received a Ph.D. in creative writing and literature from the University of Houston and an M.F.A. from the University of South Carolina. He completed his M.B.A. at Houston Baptist University. His first book of poetry, Viewed from the Keel of a Canoe, was published by Educe Press in 2016. His poems and essays have appeared widely in such publications as Confrontation, Spoon River Poetry Review, Blackwell's Companion to Creative Writing and Puerto del Sol. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/73ba29f4-c661-4341-8bb4-a006adcd8b21/board_clinton.jpg Our Board & Advisory Members - Lesley Clinton Lesley Clinton teaches English at Strake Jesuit College Preparatory in Houston, TX. Mrs. Clinton has 17 years of high school teaching with a focus on literature and writing. She has served as a faculty co-moderator of the Inkwell Creative Writing Club and is currently assistant editor of The Chronicle of Strake Jesuit. Combined with her interest in creative writing, she has 20 years of experience in the private tutoring of test prep through Kaplan and as a Strake Jesuit recommended writing tutor. She has developed curriculum through American Heritage Education Foundation. Mrs. Clinton has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, and a Master of Arts in Teaching. She has won awards from the Poetry Society of Texas and has been selected three times as a Houston Poetry Fest Juried Poet. Her poems have appeared in publications, such as Mezzo Cammin, Texas Poetry Calendar, Sakura Review, Literary Mama, Euphony Journal, Gulf Stream Magazine, and By the Light of a Neon Moon. She serves as a judge for the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston Poetry Fest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/f236e25c-b522-4184-9a65-5b3b6f39c7f0/gabino2.png Our Board & Advisory Members - Gabino Cortez Gabino Cortez is a retired chief of police with a distinguished career of over forty years in public service for the Houston Fire Department. His specialties included the crimes of arson and illegal use of explosive devices. He is the recipient of numerous Life-Saving Awards during his career as a firefighter. He is a graduate of the University of Houston in Fire Science, a program which he founded. He is a Fourth Degree Knight of Columbus and Chancellor of his Council. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/582d1b6a-dc62-4343-82a5-f2ced9f007d2/About+Page-SC%2Bhead%2Bcrop%2BATSNStop%2Bthe%2BThreatChuck%2BThompson%2B%28refined3%29.jpg Our Board & Advisory Members - Sarah Cortez Sarah Cortez has specialized in teaching the college entrance essay to at-risk youth and functioned as an Educational Specialist for the Harris County Department of Education. As a Texas Commission of the Arts travelling artist, she has taught in communities as diverse as senior facilities, juvenile detention centers, and universities. Mrs. Cortez was a Visiting Scholar for the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Houston where she specialized in teaching memoir and poetry. She is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and Fellow of The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, and has poems, essays, book reviews, and short stories published and anthologized. Winner of the PEN Texas Literary Award, she has written and/or edited fourteen award-winning books. She's been both a Houston and Texas finalist for poet laureate. She has been published in archdiocesan venues, such as Texas Catholic Herald. She is a proud law enforcement veteran of 26 years and a feature writer for Leoaffairs.com and PoliceOne.com. Founder and president of Catholic Literary Arts, she is a Rice University graduate in Psychology and Religious Studies. She holds advanced degrees from UT-Austin and UH-Central. She founded Catholic Literary Arts and guides its nationwide Catholic Poetry Society. She is a contributing editor for Catholic Arts Today for the Benedict XVI Institute of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/a59eb090-9457-4689-9387-6292f3129d43/felix.png Our Board & Advisory Members - Father Paul Felix Father Paul Felix earned a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of St. Thomas and a Master of Divinity from the University of St. Thomas School of Theology. He was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Galveston-Houston in 1990. He was the pastor at Shrine of the True Cross in Dickinson, Texas where he focused on Spanish language ministry. Father Paul serves as spiritual director for clergy, seminarians, and laity, is a frequent teacher for RCIA and other adult education events. He is a 4th degree member of Knights of Columbus, a founding member of the first group of Jesus Caritas Fraternity of Priests in the Archdiocese, and was promoted to the rank of a Knight Commander of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem. He is pastor at the Church of the Annunciation in Houston, TX. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/963834be-b8e5-42f8-89d3-595ea01f95af/Illich-%282%29.png Our Board & Advisory Members - Maria King Illich Maria King Illich is an author and educator. She holds a B.A. in English Literature and an M.Ed. from the University of St. Thomas. She has over thirty years of teaching experience in primary, intermediate, and middle-school English Language Arts. She is a certified catechist. She has received the Sally Landram Excellence in Education Award, a Principal's Award, and is a member of Who's Who Among Educators. Maria has been a juried poet for the Houston Poetry Fest multiple times. She is the founder of the Galveston-Houston Archdiocesan Poetry Contest for Middle Grades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/ebf05072-97b4-4ffa-a0f3-1fe081c2e7f8/massey_cropped2.png Our Board & Advisory Members - Larry W. Massey, Jr. Larry W. Massey, Jr. is president and trustee of The Scanlan Foundation and serves as chairman of Vocation Ministry of Houston, Texas. A member of the board of regents of the University of St. Thomas, Mr. Massey has a long history of exemplary service for the Catholic Church and the greater Houston community. Also named Citizen of the Year by the Greater Southwest Houston Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Massey received the prestigious Metyko Award for Serra Houston District 10 as the Outstanding Serran of the Year in 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/ccf29de4-393b-44cc-b40c-6cef34eab105/Fran_headshot_1.png Our Board & Advisory Members - Fran Fawcett Peterson Fran Fawcett Peterson is a professional journalist and previous anchor of the award-winning anti-crime program City Under Siege in Houston, TX. She is President of the Houston Symphony League and on the Board of the Houston Symphony League. Additionally, she is on the Marketing and Communications Committee for the University of St. Thomas, is a Dame of Malta, a Serran, a Houston Treasure, a Woman of Distinction. She is President of the Friends of The Mother and Child Foundation, Inc. for which she created a 501(c)(3), among other activities. Fran, a cradle Catholic, is the third of eight children, all of whom have at least a Master’s Degree, continues to write and promote the Catholic Faith. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/63aedcac-1539-4003-b9d8-dde98773ba97/ramos.png Our Board & Advisory Members - Gonzalo A. Ramos Gonzalo A. Ramos, a Houston native, Gonzalo holds a Master's in Sacred Music from the University of St. Thomas and a Bachelor's in Music from the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston. Gonzalo currently serves as the Artistic Director for the Bravura Concert Series and Director of Music for Hispanic Liturgies at All Saints Catholic Church in the Heights, Houston. He is Artistic Director to the Houston Cecilia Chamber Choir. In October of 2005, Gonzalo made his compositional debut with the Foundation of Modern Music in Zilkha Hall at the Hobby Center. His recent choral compositions include Luz, Nada te Turbe, Ave Verum Corpus, Angele Dei, and Pax. Pax shared its international premiere at La Rochelle, France in June of 2017. Gonzalo appears as a tenor soloist for a diverse range of engagements. Mr. Ramos currently serves as Director of Marketing for Catholic Literary Arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/b682bf92-242e-4643-9cbd-d431a217f725/garcia-prats.png Our Board & Advisory Members - Cathy Garcia-Prats Cathy Garcia-Prats is the founder of Bosco Publishing and co-author of Good Sons Don't Just Happen (2009), Good Marriages Done Just Happen (2000), and Good Families Don't Just Happen (1997) along with her husband. The mother of ten sons, Cathy, has appeared on national television many times to talk about her and husband's intentional approach to raising a Catholic family. 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Graduate Program in Creative Writing at the University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/534371c8-d355-41ee-b70b-db11c848aad5/lopez.png Our Board & Advisory Members - Rick Lopez, Ph.D. Rick Lopez, Ph.D. is the Associate Director of Music and Liturgy for the Office of Worship for the Archdiocese of Galveston- Houston. He serves as the Artistic Director of the Archdiocesan Choir and is the founder of Coro Gloria Dei Chamber Choir. He is an Associate Board Member of the Southwest Liturgical Conference serving as the Chair of the Hispanic Liturgical Ministry Development Committee. Dr. Lopez serves as an adjunct professor for the music department for the University of St. Thomas' Master of Sacred Music (MSM) program. He is a guest lecturer and frequent workshop presenter for the biennial Hispanic Pastoral Musicians Conference (HPMC), Southwest Liturgical Conference (SWLC) and the National Pastoral Musicians Conference (NPM). He is the recipient of the 2012 Worship Renewal Grant from the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. Dr. Lopez received his B.A. in vocal performance from California State University in Long Beach, California as well as an M.A in Choral Conducting from CSULB. In Southern California Dr. Lopez performed as conductor and soloist for Roger Wagner, Robert Shaw, Helmut Rilling, John Rutter, and Paul Salamunovich. Dr. Lopez received a Doctor of Musical Art in Choral Conducting with an emphasis in Sacred Music from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/2bb02268-1798-4beb-9db3-c6ea97e9e530/Mary-Ann_small.png Our Board & Advisory Members - Mary Ann (Buddenberg) Miller, Ph.D. Mary Ann (Buddenberg) Miller, Ph.D. is a professor of English at Caldwell University in Caldwell, New Jersey, a small Catholic liberal arts and pre-professional university in the Dominican tradition. She is editor of St. Peter’s B-list: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints (Ave Maria Press, 2014), a collection of over 100 poems, written by 70 poets from across the USA, and founding editor of Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, an international professional print publication, appearing annually. She received her Ph.D. in English literature from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/65e80d19-f203-4776-aa7c-1410d66a34c6/Janes_Matthew_Wilson--4-1-%281%29.png Our Board & Advisory Members - James Matthew Wilson, Ph.D. James Matthew Wilson, Ph.D. has published nine books, including The Hanging God (Angelico, 2018) and Some Permanent Things, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded (Wiseblood, 2018). He is the recipient of the 2017 Hiett Prize from the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture; his poem, “On a Palm” appeared in Best American Poetry 2018. and his work as a poet, critic, and scholar has been awarded various distinctions by the Conference on Christianity and Literature, the Catholic Press Association, America magazine, and Dappled Things magazine. Wilson serves as poetry editor of Modern Age magazine, the series editor of Colosseum Books, of the Franciscan University of Steubenville Press, and as the director of the Colosseum Summer Institute. He was associate professor of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions, at Villanova University. He is presently director of the M.F.A. 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Jean Wetta – Fishing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/dca51690-17f6-4d77-9c2a-0a134952e8f2/2.png 2022 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest 2. Matilde Oliviera –Virgin of Hope https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/5b859f82-7f49-4cfd-a520-c1b9ac2108da/3.png 2022 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest 3. Thomas Marsh – I Thirst https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/c6370afd-ef90-4896-a5f7-8d7f88ac2744/4.png 2022 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest 4. Diego Velazquez – Crucifixion (Public Domain) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/81aeeb74-c834-49b0-b9ef-c39e6d44d665/5.png 2022 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest 5. Marianne Stokes – St. Elizabeth of Hungary Working for the Poor (Public Domain) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/c110edf9-37d4-4c52-a0f5-a574ee2d38b6/6.png 2022 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest 6. Daniel Mitsui – St. Michael the Archangel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/73947c77-ff72-4c8d-8599-1d44ca91fb8d/7.png 2022 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest 7. Fr. Jonathan Harmon, S.J. – Immaculate Heart https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/80d07794-ba91-4e8e-8c06-9b66e7dfd8fb/8.png 2022 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest 8. Osamu Giovanni Micico - Holy Mother of Sorrow and Hope https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/268c311c-d219-4d57-bb9e-c714b3ec98df/1.png 2022 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest - Third Place: “A Time Apart” by Dan Jabe A Time Apart After “Fishing” by Jean Wetta We see them from our vantage on the shore, Two fishermen, a father and his son, A splash of light adrift on shades of blue, Reminding us of what we need to do: To turn our backs away from everyone, Look to our lines and fish a little more. This idle boat, its singularity, Is like a flame; my mind is drawn to it. It shines out, as a beacon in the dark Against the deepening waters, cold and stark, To ask me, for a moment, to submit And listen to its voice of clarity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/268c311c-d219-4d57-bb9e-c714b3ec98df/1.png 2022 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest - Second Place Winner: “Fishing” by Brad Davis FISHING from a painting so titled by Jean Wetta 1. so much like the last, this winter morning in Putnam— flickers on the suet so unlike Lviv where no boy I know wakes to an air raid siren, not one makes plans to go ice fishing or to a movie with friends 2. the painted lake nearly glass, boat engine off— this year’s vacation so much like the last though you are taller shoulders broader your sidearm cast out beyond mine, yours no longer your mother’s voice 3. but this winter morning so much like the last, the news catches a man kissing his wife and their teenage son goodbye in frigid Lviv, the camera panning outward from the train station to a catastrophe of rubble where once were houses 4. like mine in Putnam, and where someone, his house gone sits in a pitted driveway watching pigeons go about their daft business cooing, sure of nothing atop a roof now an island in a vast flooded lake of flattened brick and timber https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/dca51690-17f6-4d77-9c2a-0a134952e8f2/2.png 2022 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest - First Place Winner: “Oblation” by Sofia Starnes Oblation On contemplating Matilde Oliviera’s Virgin of Hope I find you in the dark side of the moon, in the silver shadow of slivered leaves, in the vacant vestibule I walk through every night, barefoot. Whoever grieves for the proffered muscle and cavity is asked to settle for potency, what might yet be—or not—the wince of violets and baby things. God’s agency taps every seed; the seed accedes, with or without a tear. O Mother of the buried breeze, that I might latch this gasp—this wish- bone wheeze—to your unhurried keep. The way you held the folds as heaven would: assuming, hence assumed; the way the linen held—spring posies here and winter there—when Thy will bloomed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/616aa7af-515e-42ff-bb18-13b60f13f39f/Celebration%2CWinners%2CJune7%2C2022.png 2022 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/2b3b6299-55d3-4c59-90d9-fed970c46299/juster_psd.png 2022 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest - Meet Our Judge We are honored to have A.M. Juster as our judge. A.M. Juster, the poetry editor of Plough, is the author of ten books of poetry and poetry translation, including Wonder and Wrath (Paul Dry Books 2020). W.W. Norton will publish his translation of Petrarch’s Canzoniere next year. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Hudson Review and other journals. He has served in senior roles for four US Presidents, including a term as Commissioner of Social Security, and received the Humanitarian of the Year Award from the Alzheimer’s Association. 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Divine, C. P. Father Nicholas M. Divine, C. P. , a graduate of Holy Apostles College and Seminary and Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, served God and Country in the United States Army for 8 years. He answered God’s call to the Congregation of the Passion, a 300-year-old Roman Catholic Congregation of Priests and Brothers known as the Passionists, dedicated to keeping alive the memory of the Passion of Jesus Christ through preaching and other ministries. A teacher of literature and creative writing for 18 years, Nicholas taught in both public and Catholic schools. He was born, educated, and worshiped in Old Ward 4, a Polish American neighborhood in Holyoke, MA. As a cast member in many musicals, Nicholas desired to be a writer after his teachers introduced him to the works of James Joyce and Gerard Manley Hopkins. S. J. Nicholas’ play, Right Angels: A Polish American Christmas Comedy in Two Acts is set for a Houston, Texas stage premiere at the University of St. Thomas, Jones Hall, on December 15, 2022. Using storytelling and comedy to teach theology, Father Nicholas understands the literary and performing arts as good and creative ways to give glory to God. Father Nicholas is on the preaching team at Holy Name Passionist Retreat Center in Houston. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/55c07611-370f-4272-9330-213df70a089c/Assumption+2022+Winner+Event.png 2022 Assumption of Mary Writing Contest - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.catholicliteraryarts.org/2022-advent-mary-mother-of-hope-writing-contest daily 0.75 2023-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/e9e18940-1e49-4e44-96f4-b270ce0f6308/Fr.+Hough+2.png 2022 Advent: Mary, Mother of Hope Writing Contest - Meet our Judge Father Charles Hough, Rector of Our Lady of Walsingham, Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, Houston, Texas A native of the Fort Worth area, Father Hough received his Masters of Divinity from Nashotah House Theological Seminary in the Spring of 2007 and was ordained in the Episcopal Church in September of 2007. He served as Curate to Saint Mark's Episcopal Church in Arlington, Texas and later as Rector of Saint Paul's Episcopal Church in Gainesville, Texas. He resigned from that position in June of 2011 to be received into the Catholic Church by the Most Reverend Kevin Vann, Bishop of Fort Worth. In the interim he worked with adult religious education and RCIA at Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton in Keller, Texas. He successfully completed the formation process and his rescript, or permission from the Vatican, to be ordained a Catholic priest for the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter in March 2012. He was ordained on June 30, 2012, the Feast of the First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church, by Bishop Vann. Father Hough was installed as Rector of Our Lady of Walsingham by Msgr. Jeffrey Steenson on July 1, 2012. He then was named as Pastor of the Cathedral and Rector of the Shrine by the Most Rev. Steven Lopes, Bishop of the Ordinariate, in 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/cdcc70c9-ada0-4f19-b0ff-00299ab7e27f/Banner%2CAdvent2022%2CCallforEntries.png 2022 Advent: Mary, Mother of Hope Writing Contest - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/e94dd2b7-dd79-4aa9-b316-73d7c710839b/Advent+Contest+Celebration.jpg 2022 Advent: Mary, Mother of Hope Writing Contest - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.catholicliteraryarts.org/2023-arch daily 0.75 2023-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/32d93dcb-9d26-483b-8c74-0f87050a4b13/banner%2CAD%2C2023Middle+School+Poetry+Contest.png 2023 Archdiocesan Middle School Poetry Contest - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.catholicliteraryarts.org/2023-lux daily 0.75 2023-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/12bf8bbc-5571-465e-aaa0-b3747475b253/banner%2CLux+1+%281%29.jpg 2023 LUX Poetry Contest - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.catholicliteraryarts.org/2023-middle-school-sacred-poetry-contests daily 0.75 2023-01-23 https://www.catholicliteraryarts.org/2023-poetry daily 0.75 2023-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/7c51d1fe-96ef-434b-9a63-e1ed8878ceb1/1.png 2023 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest 1. León Cogniet – Massacre of the Innocents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/767427ef-f32a-4e42-b93c-b106b1931a45/2.png 2023 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest 2. Matilde Oliviera – Workshop of Joseph https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/7b87c6ce-16b0-44ef-9d4a-4fc3acde579d/3.png 2023 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest 3. Mariotto Albertinelli – The Visitation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/8be32bd8-e958-4815-9d4d-ae761a6701bb/4.png 2023 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest 4. Bernadette Carstensen – John Adores the Angel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/e59777f4-3dd4-4d01-a23f-455b14fb7944/5.png 2023 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest 5. Carl Bloch – Healing of the Blind Man by Jesus Christ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/ea43d85e-7cb2-41cd-b0cf-b5b44c39d5e2/6_A.png 2023 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest 6. Dony Mac Manus – St. Joseph and the Child Jesus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/4d981e7c-8e91-4609-814b-b523f1ddf4ea/7.png 2023 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest 7. Unknown artist, 16th Century – Elijah on the Fiery Chariot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/45e35ac5-bda6-4f9c-98a1-d56d24f20d83/8.png 2023 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest 8. Fritz Von Uhde – Transition to Bethlehem https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/5aafeaf2-0eeb-41ca-8e7e-35f7dba0fec6/nick_headshot+%281%29+%281%29.jpg 2023 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest - Meet Our Judge We are honored to have Nick Ripatrazone as our judge this year. Nick Ripatrazone is the culture editor for Image Journal, and the author of The Habit of Poetry: The Literary Lives of Nuns in Mid-century America (Fortress Press, 2023). His previous books include Digital Communion, Wild Belief, and Longing for an Absent God. He has written for Rolling Stone, GQ, The Atlantic, Esquire, The Kenyon Review, America, Commonweal, The Christian Century, and The Sewanee Review. He writes a quarterly column on new poetry for The Millions, and a monthly column about the archives of literary journals for Literary Hub. He has taught literature and creative writing courses at Rutgers University, the College of New Jersey, and in Syracuse University's Project Advance program. Website: https://nickripatrazone.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/7b87c6ce-16b0-44ef-9d4a-4fc3acde579d/3.png 2023 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest - Third Place Embrace by Mia Schilling Grogan Embrace After “The Visitation” by Marioto Albertinelli Mary, in the blue of sky intensified -- and so young, your face open, unwrinkled, you hasten to your cousin in her need. Two women petrified, perhaps, framed by a classical arcade that’s sculpted from serena, the blue stone pregnant with this meaning: just proportion begets peace. But Elizabeth, your stride pushes you past decorum, into Mary’s space. The joy that erupts in your scarred womb also leans in to hold this girl, the fears you share shadowing your face. All worries, all wonder balance in your embrace, where warm greens and gold of earth enfold the spheres. – Mia Schilling Grogan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/8be32bd8-e958-4815-9d4d-ae761a6701bb/4.png 2023 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest - Second Place Notes for a Third Panel of Revelation by Greg Rappleye Notes for a Third Panel of Revelation After “John Adores the Angel” (2013) by Bernadette Carstensen-Cody This is his first try to adore the Angel, who has called every ravenous bird—the crows, the jackdaws, the vultures, to feast upon the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains and lancers, upon the dead and to-be-maimed, upon the blood of lathered horses and every wild beast. The Angel speaks of the marriage feast of the Lamb and John falls to his knees. The Angel, arrayed in white linen, the pink under-shell of his wings illumined, his coverts, primaries and secondaries aglow, motions John to rise and the Angel’s left hand signs to cease all blasphemy, to worship God alone, as the birds wheel through the cyclone gray of the painter’s sky. Note the carrion choughs and ravens, the black interlace of their wings. Did you see their marvelous kiting? Did you hear their hunger-calls? Can you find the figs shaken from trees, as if the stars were swept from the sky? Rejoice! Now the Woman atop the tarnished-copper moon, her arms a call for prayer, rises with the wings of an eagle— or very like a swan’s—and the dreamed-of Child is safe, busy with the works of heaven. Can you name each bird called to feast upon the dead? Do you know the lands from which they flew? Their names are multitude, the birds are legion and their numbers are vast. But the holy ones made margin notes, have disputed through winter nights and made annals to settle upon their lists. Now the names are written in the cyclopedias of birds and the great feather atlases of some past century, so we may know their onomas and origins. It may be that the squawking, the grinding, the cries of hawks still to-be-slaked, the slashing of flesh, can only be heard away from this panel and the tiny house of its painted frame, its thorny attic, in the blooded valley below. Do not go there, lest we fall again to worship the Angel, and be consumed in some fire unwritten, a greater war yet to come. – Greg Rappleye https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/4d981e7c-8e91-4609-814b-b523f1ddf4ea/7.png 2023 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest - First Place Something Higher by Monika Cooper Something Higher After the “Elijah on the Fiery Chariot” by Unknown artist Departures and arrivals. Passengers. The life of one old man describes an arc: A sudden collapse from sitting. Messengers, Come lift my weight, grown lighter than a lark, The height we rise to not the length I fell But something higher. Seated in a wheel That rolls to heaven up the sky from hell, From smokes of sunrise to noon’s clearest zeal, With zeal have I been zealous. There’s no need To say “With me, draw him who shared my yoke.” I know you’re coming, calling “Father,” Son. Reach into that which bears me, toward my lead, And take my cloak, my mockable brown cloak, Plucking it from the center of the sun. – Monika Cooper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/bd18db9f-53cd-4e96-bd50-9944778100a1/SPC+Entries.jpg 2023 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest Contest has closed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/5aafeaf2-0eeb-41ca-8e7e-35f7dba0fec6/nick_headshot+%281%29+%281%29.jpg 2023 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest - Meet Our Judge We are honored to have Nick Ripatrazone as our judge this year. Nick Ripatrazone is the culture editor for Image Journal, and the author of The Habit of Poetry: The Literary Lives of Nuns in Mid-century America (Fortress Press, 2023). His previous books include Digital Communion, Wild Belief, and Longing for an Absent God. He has written for Rolling Stone, GQ, The Atlantic, Esquire, The Kenyon Review, America, Commonweal, The Christian Century, and The Sewanee Review. He writes a quarterly column on new poetry for The Millions, and a monthly column about the archives of literary journals for Literary Hub. He has taught literature and creative writing courses at Rutgers University, the College of New Jersey, and in Syracuse University's Project Advance program. Website: https://nickripatrazone.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/00f37418-351f-49e0-a21c-b04edd8803fc/SPC+Winners.jpg 2023 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest - Celebration of Winners and Finalists We invite all poets and friends to join Nick Ripatrazone and the winners and finalists in a virtual Celebration of Winners and Finalists, June 6, 2023 at seven p.m. CST. An array of poetry editors from literary publications will join us. Click here to register. https://www.catholicliteraryarts.org/joseph-pearce daily 0.75 2025-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/13e39d2b-8ce6-47af-8eb5-20738ab0f8a2/CLA%2Cheadshot%2CJoseph-Pearce.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/1d88bf87-6d6b-4d0d-87f2-80ebbd5bccbf/2025_pearce_logos.jpg https://www.catholicliteraryarts.org/2023-marian-advent-prayer-contest daily 0.75 2023-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/00cd3780-97d4-49c7-af8a-41539c0a45fd/Fr+Bullock+-+head+shot.png 2023 Marian Advent Prayer Contest: Seeking Intercession - This year’s 2023 Advent Poetry Judge is Fr. John Bullock, LC. Fr. John Bullock, LC, is a priest with the Legionaries of Christ and was ordained in 2002. His work in ministry has brought him to California, and Cincinnati, Ohio. He is currently living in Houston, Texas, his hometown. He has worked with youth, in college campus ministry, and as a chaplain to the Regnum Christi Movement. He also works with the Catholic business ministry Lumen. He has authored A Heart Like Jesus: A Regnum Christi Essay on Contemplating and Imitating Jesus, and A Cyclist’s Spirituality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/00cd3780-97d4-49c7-af8a-41539c0a45fd/Fr+Bullock+-+head+shot.png 2023 Marian Advent Prayer Contest: Seeking Intercession - This year’s 2023 Advent Poetry Judge is Fr. John Bullock, LC. Fr. John Bullock, LC, is a priest with the Legionaries of Christ and was ordained in 2002. His work in ministry has brought him to California, and Cincinnati, Ohio. He is currently living in Houston, Texas, his hometown. He has worked with youth, in college campus ministry, and as a chaplain to the Regnum Christi Movement. He also works with the Catholic business ministry Lumen. He has authored A Heart Like Jesus: A Regnum Christi Essay on Contemplating and Imitating Jesus, and A Cyclist’s Spirituality. https://www.catholicliteraryarts.org/2024-sacred-poetry daily 0.75 2024-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/1d9298a7-1248-42a0-a086-8d837ed605ce/Christ+Before+Pilate.jpg 2024 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest 1. Mihaly Munkacsy – Christ Before Pilate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/73cb1513-bb63-4dcf-928e-808c69e7e951/Dan+DeLouise_For+Love+of+You+-+5-mb.jpg 2024 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest 2. Dan Delouise — For Love of You https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/9cde03d4-2a99-44d2-ab53-afadccf008c7/Guadalupe+Breakthrough.jpg 2024 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest 3. Br. A. Brian Zampier, SM — Guadalupe Breakthrough https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/629eaed1-4d05-4aaa-b949-96b4a7a03148/Jesus+with+the+Woman+at+the+Well.jpg 2024 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest 4. Lu Hongnian — Jesus with the Woman at the Well https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/350fd112-36db-4552-9e49-e3d3cb1fb49c/The+Annunciation.jpg 2024 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest 5. Henry Ossawa Tanner — The Annunciation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/ca30cbf4-827e-4347-95d3-248946572807/The+Conversion+of+St.+Paul+on+the+Road+to+Damascus.jpg 2024 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest 6. Michelangelo M. da Caravaggio — The Conversion of St. Paul on the Road to Damascus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/b007ebf9-ceb5-4f4f-a248-f36c27cd411c/The+Crowning+of+the+Virgin.jpg 2024 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest 7. Louis-Édouard Paul Fournier — The Crowning of the Virgin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/26566df5-b5ae-4382-ad33-7a25efa5cd57/Three+Holy+Kings.jpg 2024 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest 8. Piotr Stachiewicz — Three Holy Kings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/1fe24c44-e019-4d8e-ba97-09f3966b2c7e/wilson.jpg 2024 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest - Meet Our Judge We are honored to have Ryan Wilson as our judge this year. Ryan Wilson is Editor-in-Chief of Literary Matters (literarymatters.org) and author of The Stranger World (Measure, 2017), winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize, of How to Think Like a Poet (Wiseblood, 2019), of Proteus Bound: Selected Translations (Franciscan UP, 2021), and of In Ghostlight: Poems (LSU, 2024). His work appears widely in periodicals such as 32 Poems, First Things, Five Points, The Hopkins Review, The New Criterion, Quarterly West, The Sewanee Review, and The Yale Review, and his poems have been anthologized in Best American Poetry, Christian Poetry in America Since 1940, and elsewhere. Co-editor of the forthcoming anthology Contemporary Catholic Poetry (Paraclete, 2024), he teaches at The Catholic University of America and in the M.F.A. program at The University of St. Thomas – Houston. Website: https://ryanwilsonpoetry.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/350fd112-36db-4552-9e49-e3d3cb1fb49c/The+Annunciation.jpg 2024 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest - Third Place Purgation by William James Purgation Response to Tanner’s “The Annunciation” The damp, wool robe descends like armored hordes Cresting a snow-white hill. Perturbed by dreams, The maiden folds her hands: her will her Lord’s. Beset by foes, her worries run like streams. Nations, time and again, Throw stones at holy men, But they will fall. She heard him many times, but none like this. A terrible, hot tongue unseams her cell: A thousand trumpet blasts, a black abyss Encompassed by the echo of a bell. While bride and bridegroom dance, The Cherubim advance Amid the wall. Before she left, they asked her what she saw. She smiled and would not say. Where to begin? With upturned eyes, she burned with hidden Law; Thus blindness blessed a virgin free of sin. Salted with fire, mankind Will enter Heaven blind, Or not at all. – William James https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/26566df5-b5ae-4382-ad33-7a25efa5cd57/Three+Holy+Kings.jpg 2024 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest - Second Place Arrival of Kings by Tamara Nicholl-Smith Arrival of Kings Response to Stachiewicz’s “Three Holy Kings” Others have already wondered how you could have known what route to take: contended you read stars, could touch your fingers to their bright braille and divine direction from their winking warmth, that something deep inside you, like a compass, gave you certainty. But I am thinking of the moment when your journey finally came to an end, the moment you emerged from night’s long road, to gather at the place where Mary and Joseph had made a home. Where one by one you each stepped forward, backlit by the lambent rays of the low-hung sun, to reverently present your gifts of gold, of frankincense, and myrrh. I can see it, the faint shape cast by your bejeweled crowns in the dark play of light, a fleet flickering glimpse of future — shadow of thorns, crowning the holy child’s head. – Tamara Nicholl-Smith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/1d9298a7-1248-42a0-a086-8d837ed605ce/Christ+Before+Pilate.jpg 2024 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest - First Place The Prefect of Judea by J.E. McBride The Prefect of Judaea Response to Munkácsy’s “Christ Before Pilate” An ambitious man, the scribes do not record To whom he gave offense to have received this fate. This tedious posting in an alien land, red With blood and clay and drudgery of bleary mornings, Bearing the bickering of an apocalyptic people, Blasphemers against the gods of sovereign and of hearth. Partisans of a jealous deity, whom they propitiate in vain With law, burnt sacrifice of lamb, bombastic scorn of prophets. Their father, unforgiving, has led them into slavery, Bound them under destiny of others greater than themselves, Under yoke of legion and of Emperor, true divinity on earth. He comforts himself with the wisdom of his counselors. In his martial ear they pour the subtleties of geopolitics. Like all ambitious men, he knows as by an animal instinct That faithfulness in humble things stores up talents To spend, in the acceptable hour, at Caesar’s marketplace. But how he tires of his charge. Will he waste a decade here? A life? Embroiled in minutiae, august decrees disdained by mobs? What will the histories say of him—a legacy of rebellion, Tax enforcement, petty property disputes? Dragged down by years As they sink below the sands, and disappearing with them The dying embers of longed-for honors That once cast their golden light across his youth. What is left to love? He loves power, Apollo, and the sea. From Caesarea he looks west, yearning for the source of each. In Jerusalem, unwilling, he suffocates under absurdity. Why is there this disheveled wanderer tossed before him, Delaying midday luncheon, calling him forth from chambers Dark and cool where nameless courtesans soothe aching feet With sponges of sweet water, where matters of state Can be contemplated in something approaching peace. No, he knows truth. He always had. He didn’t need a dream To teach him. Truth is the hand that governs men, The disciplining fear, the audacious heart, the heft Of the javelin in the palm, the conviction that compels the spear Past the ramparts of unyielding flesh. Truth is what goes beyond, what builds the order of the world Against the inertia of its decay. A duty always changing. Today it means the cunning compromise, tomorrow the razing fist. Fools in fora and the halls of senate speak of truth Like boys in bloom boast with tales of women’s bodies But it is here along the edges of the map where unsung men Weave its boundaries from the void and seal them with the stamp of death. And so, a day like any other. He lifts his hand, he speaks, he writes. Hesitates for a single moment, does not erase what he has written. – J.E. McBride https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/8b975c2b-5505-4380-a1e9-b0e73ac347d3/SPC+2024+Entries+call+Square.jpg 2024 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest - We welcome you to the 2024 Sacred Poetry Contest sponsored by Catholic Literary Arts. We look forward to reading your work. Please read the guidelines and information below carefully. Additionally, we encourage your review of prior years’ winners of this contest which are available on our website. The 2024 Sacred Poetry Contest opens December 1, 2023 and ends at 11:59 p.m. CST on March 31, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/1fe24c44-e019-4d8e-ba97-09f3966b2c7e/wilson.jpg 2024 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest - Meet Our Judge Ryan Wilson is Editor-in-Chief of Literary Matters (literarymatters.org) and author of The Stranger World (Measure, 2017), winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize, of How to Think Like a Poet (Wiseblood, 2019), of Proteus Bound: Selected Translations (Franciscan UP, 2021), and of In Ghostlight: Poems (LSU, 2024). His work appears widely in periodicals such as 32 Poems, First Things, Five Points, The Hopkins Review, The New Criterion, Quarterly West, The Sewanee Review, and The Yale Review, and his poems have been anthologized in Best American Poetry, Christian Poetry in America Since 1940, and elsewhere. Co-editor of the forthcoming anthology Contemporary Catholic Poetry (Paraclete, 2024), he teaches at The Catholic University of America and in the M.F.A. program at The University of St. Thomas – Houston. Website: https://ryanwilsonpoetry.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/1a56dcb7-6364-4565-9fdf-56af14920553/SPC+Winners+Square+%281%29.jpg 2024 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest - Celebration of Winners and Finalists We invite all poets and friends to join Ryan Wilson and the winners and finalists in a virtual Celebration of Winners and Finalists reading their work, May 7, 2024 at seven p.m. CST via Zoom. An array of poetry editors from literary publications will join us. The event is free, but registration is required. Click here to register. We welcome your donations to help fund scholarships for next school year's Teen Writing Mentorship Program. See the details of this program here. https://www.catholicliteraryarts.org/2024-arch daily 0.75 2025-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/f819ccac-43c8-4f88-a012-a36f0106af3c/Arch+2024+Entries+call+Square.jpg 2024 Archdiocesan Middle School Poetry Contest - Goal: The goal of the Archdiocesan of Galveston-Houston Middle School Sacred Poetry Contest is to inspire students in the Archdiocesan-affiliated schools to write about spiritual topics, to increase writing skills, and to increase writing confidence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/6f1ae95f-737c-4909-ab57-91ac505c1190/AMSPC-Contest-Awards-Ceremony-2024.jpg 2024 Archdiocesan Middle School Poetry Contest - Register for the Archdiocesan Poetry Winners Reading & Celebration Join Catholic Literary Arts to celebrate the winners of the 2024 Archdiocesan Sacred Poetry Contest for sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. The reading by the winners will be at nine a.m. on April 10, 2024 at the University of St. Thomas, Jones Hall, in the auditorium. The celebration will begin with a welcome by UST president, Dr. Richard Ludwick. Then we will all revel in listening to the winning poems written by the young poets in joyous praise of the Eucharistic Presence of Jesus Christ. We welcome the friends and family of our young poets, and we look forward to reconnecting with the incredible teachers and principals of the schools where the students attend full-time.. The 2024 Archdiocesan poet laureate will be named during the ceremony. Please register here so that we are able to provide coffee and pastries for all guests after the poetry reading. 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The reading by the winners will be at nine a.m. on April 3, 2024 at the University of St. Thomas, Jones Hall, in the auditorium. The celebration will begin with a welcome by CLA president Sarah Cortez. Then we will revel in listening to the winning poems written by the young poets in joyous praise of the Eucharistic Presence of Jesus Christ. We welcome the friends and family of our young poets, and we look forward to reconnecting with the independent Catholic schools and the thriving Houston-area homeschooling community. The 2024 LUX poet laureate will be named during the ceremony. Please register here so that we are able to provide coffee and pastries for all guests after the poetry reading. Donations are accepted. https://www.catholicliteraryarts.org/2024-mary daily 0.75 2025-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/1717621942961-2UM7N4YSOQZXF2BZN8F1/Mary+Assumption+Square+%281%29.jpg 2024 Assumption of Mary Writing Contest - Writing Contest 2024: Virtual Reading by Winners and Finalists August 8, 2024, 7:00 p.m. CDT Join CLA members and friends to celebrate the 2024 Assumption Contest winners and finalists. This year’s judge is award-winning writer Katy Carl. This year’s contest asked writers to compose poems in honor of Mary: Queen of Families. Follow this link to register. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/1ab6ccd6-9813-4c1b-bcff-08e3744c12f7/headshot%2CCarl%2CKaty%2CVOS_9277_cropped.jpg 2024 Assumption of Mary Writing Contest - Meet Our judge We are honored to have Katy Carl as our judge this year. Katy Carl is the author of As Earth Without Water, Fragile Objects, and Praying the Great O Antiphons. A senior affiliate fellow of Penn's Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society, she holds an MFA in fiction from the University of St. Thomas-Houston, where she is currently writer in residence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/c7950186-debe-4dc0-9f92-86fecaba288e/Mary+Assumption+Square+%281%29.jpg 2024 Assumption of Mary Writing Contest - Assumption Poetry Contest: Mary, Queen of Families Catholic Literary Arts (CLA) encourages you to write Assumption poems to Mary, in honor of her title as the Queen of Families. This contest is part of CLA’s focused and ongoing efforts to encourage people to write new work which uses the rich traditions and images of the Catholic faith to bring God into today’s world through the originality of contemporary writing. The contest opens on June 5, 2024 and closes at 11:59 p.m. July 15, 2024. Each poem is limited to 48 lines, not including the title and stanza breaks. Each submission to the contest will be judged according to the beauty of language, expertise of the use of poetic devices, and figural images. In addition, the poetry will be evaluated for resonance with the contest’s theme and the use of Sacred Tradition and devotional Marian sensibility, where applicable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/1ab6ccd6-9813-4c1b-bcff-08e3744c12f7/headshot%2CCarl%2CKaty%2CVOS_9277_cropped.jpg 2024 Assumption of Mary Writing Contest - This Year’s Judge The judge this year is the award-winning poet and author Katy Carl. Katy Carl is the author of As Earth Without Water, Fragile Objects, and Praying the Great O Antiphons. A senior affiliate fellow of Penn's Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society, she holds an MFA in fiction from the University of St. Thomas-Houston, where she is currently writer in residence. https://www.catholicliteraryarts.org/2024-advent-poetry-contest daily 0.75 2025-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/71b30874-45d0-48d8-b575-6b0a05ad7ea9/Marci+Headshot.jpg 2024 Advent Poetry Contest - This year’s 2024 Advent Contest Judge is Mary Cecelia Bowman. Mary Cecelia Bowman, a fourth-generation native Arizonan, is a retired high school English and history teacher who has published poems in journals such as, The Christian Science Monitor and the Crimson Crane, and human-interest stories in The Arizona Daily Star. 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This free event will give us an opportunity to enjoy sacred poetry read by the poets themselves. Our final judge Sally Read will attend this virtual celebration and read previously prepared comments on each of the three winning poems. Click here to register for Virtual Reading by Winners and Finalists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/7371df63-86bd-4162-88c1-eb62a5d48a21/headshot%2CSallyRead.jpg 2025 Adult Sacred Poetry Contest - Meet Our Final Judge Sally Read is editor of Word on Fire’s 100 Great Catholic Poems and an award-winning poet in her own right. Her first collection since her conversion from atheism to Catholicism, Dawn of this Hunger, was the fruit of her time as poet in residence at the Hermitage of the Three Holy Hierarchs. Sally’s poetry has been recorded for the UK’s Poetry Archive, and her writing, in both poetry and prose, has appeared in numerous publications and anthologies, including The Times Literary Supplement, The Picador Book of Love Poems, and Forward’s Poems of the Decade. Her poetry has also been featured on BBC Radio, and episodes of her Radio Maria England show, “Poetry for the Season,” are available on Spotify. Sally has written lyrics for the sacred music of Paul Flynn, and their songs have been performed by The Palestrina and Trinity College Chapel Choirs in Dublin. Her memoir Night’s Bright Darkness recounts her conversion, and her following book, Annunciation: A Call to Faith in a Broken World, was the subject of a short film by Norman Servais for EWTN Great Britain. Sally’s literary memoir, The Mary Pages, is newly released from Word on Fire. More information, including details of Sally’s poetry consultancy, can be found at www.sallyread.net. 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El Greco – Pentecost https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/be1d9124-ed39-4721-a1b0-41a51bd779f8/6_Stigmatization_of_St_Francis_Giotto_di_Bondone_.jpg 2026 Sacred Poetry Contest 6. Giotto di Bondone - Stigmatization of St. Francis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/0097101b-d1d0-4a26-913c-d24c27f0e815/7_Tobias_and_the_Angel_MET_ap19.171.1-1.jpg 2026 Sacred Poetry Contest 7. Thomas Wilmer Dewing -Tobias and the Angel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a7aea7f593f65a7361654e/74629f43-2d92-42aa-9c80-3126af34df74/8_Herodias-Kramskoy.jpg 2026 Sacred Poetry Contest 8. 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