Now that we all have a little more time to read and reflect, we've been going back to some of our favorite Paraclete books for new inspiration.... these are especially fitting! We're all experiencing it right now, if not by choice -...
March 25, 2020 – After several months reading and discussing sixty-three outstanding entries, judges Mark S. Burrows, Luci Shaw, and Jon M. Sweeney are pleased to announce the winners of the First Paraclete Poetry Prize. First Prize winner is Laura Reece...
Litany of Flights by Laura Reece Hogan First, the winged movement, steady, forward. Scrub jays in flitting progress, hawks in predator glide, a ringing up, a knife-sharp slope down. Second, the effortless type, wind-splayed, motionless pinions in thermal recline,...
March 23, 2020 – Paraclete Press announces a one-month delay on titles that were to be published in May and early June. “We have added one month to those publication dates,” says Paraclete publisher Jon M. Sweeney. Paraclete has five new...
March 16, 2020 – Judges Mark S. Burrows, Luci Shaw, and Jon M. Sweeney have announced the final “Short List of Three” finalists for the 2020 Paraclete Poetry Prize. Amy Bornman Deborah Burnham Laura Reece Hogan Jill Peláez Baumgaertner and...
Mark S. Burrows, Luci Shaw, and Jon M. Sweeney, judges for the first Paraclete Poetry Prize wish to announce a “Long List of Ten Finalists.” “We received a total of sixty-three entries,” says Sweeney, who is also the publisher at...
From the Introduction to Work, Play, Love: How the Mass Changed the Life of the First Christians by Mike Aquilina Culture begins at the banquet table. In every religion, at every time in human history, shared feasts have formed—or deformed—the culture.Sharing...
Flannery O’Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia on March 25, 1925. At age 13 she and her parents, Edward O’Connor and Regina Cline O’Connor, moved to the small town of Milledgeville in central Georgia to live near Regina’s large extended...
Lord, Make Me An Instrument of Your Peace: The Complete Prayers of St. Francis and St. Clare, with Selections from Brother Juniper, St. Anthony of Padua, and Other Early Franciscans by Jon M. Sweeney We do not immediately associate Francis...
