Katie Manning

The Book of Fists

Katie Manning was tired of the Bible being used as a weapon against other people, so she started taking language from the Bible and using it to make poems.

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Brett Foster

William Banks’s Wager

In “William Banks’s Wager,” Brett Foster reconstructs a letter from William Banks, a British clerk who venerated the famous Mount Grace Priory, in which Banks beseeches the monks’ prayers and confesses, with slight pleasure, a certain theft.

Chris Anderson

Above Them All a Cherry Tree

In “Trees,” Jesus’ condemnation reenacts itself under a cherry tree, the red fruit hanging in “fistfuls” on a monastery hill.