Francisco X. Alarcón, “L.A. Prayer.” From From the Other Side of Night / Del otro lado de la noche by Francisco X. Alarcón. Copyright © 2002 Francisco X. Alarcón. Reprinted by permission of the University of Arizona Press.
Wendell Berry, “Prayer after Eating.” From The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry. Copyright © 1998 by Wendell Berry. Reprinted by permission of Counterpoint Press.
Scott Cairns, “Possible Answers to Prayer.” From Compass of Affection: Poems New and Selected by Scott Cairns. Copyright © 2006 by Scott Cairns. Used by permission of Paraclete Press: www.paracletepress.com.
Michael Chitwood, “On Being Asked to Pray for a Van.” From Spill, published by Tupelo Press. Copyright © 2007 by Michael Chitwood. Used with permission.
Lucille Clifton, “spring song.” From The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton. Copyright © 2000 by Lucille Clifton. Reprinted with the permission of The Permission Company, Inc., on behalf of BOA Editions Ltd.: www.boaeditions.org.
T. S. Eliot, excerpt from “The Dry Salvages.” From Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot. Copyright © 1941 by T. S. Eliot, renewed 1969 by Esme Valerie Eliot. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company and Faber and Faber Ltd. All rights reserved.
Robert Frost, “A Prayer in Spring.” From The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright © 1934, 1969 by Henry Holt and Company. Copyright © 1962 by Robert Frost. Used by permission of Henry Holt and Company. All rights reserved.
Joy Harjo, “Eagle Poem.” From In Mad Love and War, copyright © 1990 by Joy Harjo. Published by Wesleyan University Press. Used by permission.
Anna Kamienska, “Those Who Carry.” From Astonishments: Selected Poems of Anna Kamienska, edited and translated by Graźyna Drabik and David Curzon. Polish text copyright © 2007 by Pawel Spiewak. Translation and compilation copyright © 2007 by Graźyna Drabik and David Curzon. Used by permission of Paraclete Press: www.paracletepress.com.
Galway Kinnell, “Prayer.” From The Past by Galway Kinnell. Copyright © 1985 by Galway Kinnell. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Denise Levertov, “The Avowal.” From Oblique Prayers, copyright © 1984 by Denise Levertov. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. British permission: Denise Levertov, “The Avowal.” From New Selected Poems (Eastburn: Bloodaxe Books, 2003). Reproduced with permission of Bloodaxe Books: www.bloodaxebooks.com.
Thomas Merton, “The Candlemas Procession.” From The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton, copyright © 1946 by New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1977 by The Trustees of the Merton Legacy Trust. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Mary Oliver, “Praying.” From the volume Thirst by Mary Oliver, published by Beacon Press, Boston. Copyright © 2006 by Mary Oliver. Used herewith by permission of the Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency, Inc.
SAID, “Psalm.” From 99 Psalms by SAID. Copyright © 2013 English translation by Mark Burrows. Originally published in German as SAID, Psalmen. Copyright © 2007 by Verlag C. H. Beck oHG, Munich. Used by permission of Paraclete Press: www.paracletepress.com.
Marin Sorescu, “Prayer.” Translated by Gabriela Dragnea from My Hands Behind My Back. Copyright © 1991 by Oberlin College. Used by permission of Oberlin College Press. All rights reserved.
Richard Wilbur, excerpt from “The Eye.” From The Mind-Reader by Richard Wilbur. Copyright © 1972 by Richard Wilbur. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.