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This collection of poems for the soul, compiled by authors/poets Judith Valente and Charles Reynard, probes the classic themes of the spiritual life. The poets featured in Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul include Mary Oliver, Billy Collins, Stanley Kunitz, M. S. Merwin, Charles Wright, Rainer Maria Rilke, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. These poems for the soul assure us, in moving language, that God can be found in all things, and that grace blesses even the most simple moments of our daily lives.
Charles Reynard serves as a Circuit Court Judge in Central Illinois. His poems have appeared on WGLT Public Radio’s “Poetry Radio”, also in the anthology Where We Live Illinois Poets (edited by Kathleen Kirk, 2003), the 2004 Emily Dickinson Awards anthology by Universities West Press, the literary journals AfterHours, Crab Orchard Review, Kaleidowhirl (on-line), as well as in National Catholic Reporter. He is co-editor (with Judith Valente) of Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul (2005, Loyola Press).
Judith Valente is an awarding-winning print and broadcast journalist, poet and essayist.
She has worked for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Dallas Times Herald, she has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize on numerous occasions. For past eight years, Ms. Valente has been an award-winning contributor to the national PBS-TV news program Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly.
She is the author and contributor to several poetry books including Discovering Moons and Inventing An Alphabet plus a wide variety of other publications. She was co-editor with her husband, Charles Reynard, on the inspirational book, Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul (Loyola Press, 2005).
Judith holds a masters in fine arts in creative writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and lives in Illinois.
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