What Will Soon Take Place
Tania Runyan
What Will Soon Take Place is an imaginative journey through the book of Revelation. It offers a poet’s view of the prophetic, not in the sense of ...
View full details“People are hungry for truth, wisdom and beauty to help them cope with the challenges of being human, and poetry offers exactly that. A poem written by a stranger who was born 200 years ago, or 20 years ago, can articulate in a short space the promptings of our own private hearts.” —Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, author of Andalusian Hours and Love in the Time of Coronavirus
What Will Soon Take Place is an imaginative journey through the book of Revelation. It offers a poet’s view of the prophetic, not in the sense of ...
View full detailsSonnets are familiar to us, but not relevant. What do they have to do with our fast-paced, tech-driven, ever-shrinking contemporary world? But what...
View full detailsIn this collection, poet Sarah Law presents lucid, lyrical reflections on the much-loved saint, Thérèse of Lisieux (1873-97), whose life and writin...
View full details“Cornered by the Dark is a triumph.” —Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoW. H. Auden, Jorge Luis Borges, Howard Thurman, Jul...
View full detailsAnaphora, the repetition of a word or phrase, draws our attention in new ways to the repeated term, and can lead us to moments of epiphany. In Euch...
View full detailsFrom Saint Paul to Julian of Norwich, Scott Cairns has lovingly examined, pressed for the revelation, and set in verse the most memorable, beautifu...
View full detailsA new collection from one of our favorite poets. Fourteen “Idiot Psalms,” surrounded by dozens of other poems, make this his most challenging colle...
View full detailsScott Cairns has carefully preserved every poem he’s ever published that he cares to preserve. He’s also added previously unpublished work, spannin...
View full detailsExcerpted in Image Magazine – No. 90 This collection of poems explores the saints of the church’s history and contemporary persons who embody somet...
View full detailsAfter 60 years at Gethsemani Abbey, Br. Paul follows up his recent memoir, In Praise of the Useless Life, with a poetic collection that shows how t...
View full detailsThis collection offers a rich harvest taken from one season in the poet’s creative life. Like movements in a musical composition, these poems share...
View full detailsMany readers think that Emily Dickinson rejected religion and wanted nothing to do with God. And yet her poetry and life tell a deeper story. Looki...
View full details“These are meditative poems that seem to rise from a long and deep looking at life, in its most ordinary and familiar moments. They invite us into...
View full detailsThe act of writing poetry, for Sofia Starnes, is a “getting out of the way” so that a poem might occur, a poem that must itself become a place of ...
View full detailsSpiritual teacher, writer, rabbi and poet, Rami Shapiro has taught thousands of people in workshops across North America for a quarter century. His...
View full detailsFeatured in "The Millions" — A year in Reading, Nick Ripatrazone."Each year I read more books than I can possibly review — here are 5 of the fines...
View full detailsThe Chance of Home Somewhere there must be where no one wonders whether you belong… So begins the title poem of this remarkable collection fro...
View full detailsLangley offers comfort and encouragement to those struggling with recent loss or grief, helping them find language for complex emotions, and open ...
View full detailsFeaturing 23 contemporary Catholic poets, from Julia Alvarez and Carolyn Forché to Timothy Murphy and Franz Wright, this anthology is an essential ...
View full detailsA posthumous collection of poems on the beauty of the seasons, creation, life and death, from beloved poet Catherine de Vinck.In the words of the F...
View full detailsIn all times, in different branches of the Christian family, there are people who have written or sung or spoken things that encouraged us to give our lives to God and to listen to His voice. At Paraclete Press, we gather and share these treasures.