A brief announcement and plug: I’m honored to be among the finalists for the Catholic Literary Arts 2023 Sacred Poetry Contest. There will be a virtual reading this Tuesday, June 6, at 7pm CT/8pm ET.
You can register to attend (free) at Eventbrite here.
The theme of the competition was Ekphrasis, or poetry written about works of visual art. I chose Carl Bloch’s 1871 “Healing of the Blind Man”:
You can read the winning entries here.