Vita Poetica Journal | Spring 2021
Contents
Editorial
Co-Editor Caroline Langston highlights the longing for
connection that permeates this issue's selections.
Poetry
White Deer | Lynn Domina
Tell Me 사랑해 | Melanie Hyo-In Han
Heresies | Veneta Masson
Peasant Woman | Phil Flott
You’ve Got Our Ear | Marjorie Maddox
Walk to Emmaus | Rachel E. Hicks
After My Grandmother Died | Christine Valters Paintner
Clarity | Nicholas Smith
Fiction
Fragile Objects | Katy Carl
Nonfiction
Backwards Monastic | Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
Visual Art
Prodigal Rambler & Sanctification in Process | Carolyn Marshall Wright
Digital Media
Acacia Danielson commemorates the canonization of St. Joan of Arc
in this site-specific movement piece.
Interview
A Conversation with Visual Artist Mary Jennings
Mary Amendolia Gardner speaks with Mary Jennings
on art-making as worship.
Reviews
When Hippias Met Miss Rumphius
Reviews Editor Lila Stiff kicks off her reviews series on the subject of beauty,
beginning where one usually does: with Plato.
Breaking and Making | A Review of Makoto Fujimura’s Art & Faith | Melanie Weldon-Soiset
Contemplative Practice
Contemplative Prayer | Teresa Ramsey
Cover art: Carolynn Marshall Wright. Prodigal Rambler, 2020. Watercolor on gesso’ed paper.
With thanks to contributing editors to this issue:
Jody Collins
Mary Amendolia Gardner
Emily Chambers Sharpe
Maggie Swofford