Author - Jeannine M. Pitas

Jeannine M. Pitas is a teacher, poet, writer, Spanish-English literary translator, immigrant rights advocate, caregiving daughter of octogenarian parents, and cancer patient living in Pittsburgh. She teaches at Saint Vincent College, the oldest Benedictine institution of higher education in the United States, and serves on the editorial staff of Eulalia Books, a small press dedicated to publishing Latin American poetry in translation, and Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, a Catholic literary journal. Her writing has appeared in U.S. Catholic, The Christian Century, Americaand National Catholic Reporter.

In the Catacombs

On their walls Jonah emerges from the whale after three days: this sea scene—not the cross— is the sign of the Resurrection. The three Wise Men— first Gentiles...

Child in slow/motion

the child / who won’t be alive tomorrowthe child / taking refuge in a hospitalwith three brothers / one sister / and a mother who says /come on / we have to go...