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May 13, 2023

Jessica Powers: Habits of poetry and prayer

May 13, 2023

Nick Ripatrazone writes in his new book about Jessica Powers, an American nun and mystical Catholic poet. ‘I should like to go to New York.” Jessica Powers (1905-88) spent the decade following her mother’s death in 1925 as a homemaker, tending to the family farmhouse in Mauston, Wisconsin, to support her brothers. With the marriage

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