Poetry
2024
“Why I Can Now Stay Churched” in Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry 2024
“On Reading Les Murray Died Four Years Ago” in Quadrant, Vol. LXVIII, Number 4, No. 605. Also online, Quadrant
“Walking to Noon Mass” in The Windhover, 28.1, 2024
2023
“Waiting for Change in the Moral Arc of the Universe with a Nod to Martin Luther King,” in SLANT, A Journal of Poetry, Volume 37.2, Fall 2023
“Wherefore” and “Howsoever” in All Shall Be Well: An Anthology of New Poems for Julian of Norwich, edited by Sarah Law, Amethyst Press, 2023
“Some Avian Advice” in SLANT: A Journal of Poetry, Volume 37:1, Spring 2023
“An Accurate Account of the Ineffable” in Amethyst Review, April 16, 2023
“Let It End” in Still Point Arts Quarterly, Issue No. 49, Spring 2023
“like sparks among the stubble” in The Windhover, 27.1, 2023
2022
“One Last Leap” in Bearings Online: Collegeville Institute, December 14, 2022
“The Aughts: A History” in Slant: A Journal of Poetry, Vol. 36.3, Fall 2022
“Ode to Siliphion” in New Verse News, October 8, 2022
“The Last Day” in Naugatuck River Review, Summer/Fall 2022
“Holy Host of Inquiries” in Xavier Review Volume 41, Issues 1 & 2
“Fracking” in Gargoyle #76, CD (reading)
“Aubade to April” in Gargoyle #75, 2022
“Shared Divinity” in Amethyst Review, April 16, 2022
“All Done with the Grieving” in The Windhover 26:1, 2022
“Seek and You Shall Find,” “Courage: A Study of Context,” “Sprung Self” in The Jesuits: Finding God in All Things, edited by Desmond Kon and Eric Valles, Squircle Line Press
“Eternity: How to Make It Work for You” in The Curator Magazine, March 4, 2022
2021
“Whack-a-Mole for Grownups” in Spillway 29
“Quanta, Quanta, Quanta,” “Mysterium Tremendum,” “The Nostalgia Which Seizes Us” in A Given Grace: An Anthology of Christian Poems, edited by Desmond Kon and Eric Valles, Squircle Line Press
“In Praise of the Light” online at Poems for Ephesians; McMaster Divinity College, November 3, 2021
“What I Need to Write” and “When I Dream of Freedom” in Adanna, Issue 11, Fall 2021
“Transubstantiation” in Unruly Catholic Feminists: Prose, Poetry, and the Future of the Faith, Jeana DelRosso, Leigh Eicke, Ana Kothe, editors, SUNY Press, 2021
“The New Time Is Not Yet Poetry” in Slant: A Journal of Poetry, Vol. XXXV, Summer 2021
“It’s Hard to Reason with the Dead,” in Short Takes, Persimmon Tree, Summer 2021
“Vatican II Periti: An Acrostic (Hans Kung, 1928 - 2021),” in Christian Century, June 14, 2021
“Twelve Ways of Looking at Today” in Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, 2021
2020
“Everybody’s Looking for Something” and “Wait; See” in Off the Coast, Winter 2020
“Black Madonna” in This Present Former Glory: An Anthology of Honest Spiritual Literature, edited by Matthew E. Henry, A Game for Good Christians, 2020.
“Rereading the Classics” in Adanna Literary Journal, Issue 10, 2020
“Wicked” in Cider Press Review, October 2020, Vols. 22-23.
“Under the Thin Skin of Comity; A Palindrome in Real Time” and “Priest-Poet Meets His Maker” in Windhover 2020, 24.1
2019
“Chasing Mystery” in Adanna Issue 9 (2019)
“Walter Mitty, Wonderbra and I Were Born in 1947” reprinted in Is It Hot In Here Or Is it Just Me?: Women Over Forty Write on Aging, edited by Janette Schafer, Wendy Scott, Holly Spencer, Nina Padolf. Produced by Beautiful Cadaver Project Pittsburgh, 2019. Poem previously appeared in Gargoyle.
“Acrostic for Therese of Lisieux” online at Amethyst Review, October 1, 2019
“Acrostic for Simone Weil” online at Amethyst Review, August 23, 2019
“Fracking” in Gargoyle 70, 2019
“Hiding My Name in Plain Sight: An Acrostic (Kinda) Sonnet” in Entropy: Final Poems, July 11, 2019
“Where Is Ephesus? Where, the Ephesians?” at Poems for Ephesians, McMaster Divinity College, July 10, 2019
“Ode to 1577” online at The Cresset: A Review of Literature, the Arts and Public Affairs, Easter 2019
“Go Ahead,” reprinted in A Walk with Nature: Poetic Encounters that Nourish the Soul, edited by Michael Moats, Derrick Sebree, Jr., Gina Subia Belton, and Louis Hoffman. Part of the Poetry, Healing, and Growth Series, University Professors Press, 2019.
“Beleaguered Church Hears the Call for Apology” in Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, 2019
“The Importance of Feeling Special” reprinted in *82 review; Pocket Poems, edited by Alisa Golden, April 2019. Available online or print.
“Excommunicate” online at Talking Writing, February 4, 2019
“Ellipses” online at Talking Writing, February 4, 2019
“Sin” in Windhover 23:1 (2019)
2018
“Boon” in Anglican Theological Review, Fall 2018
"Definitions” in Windhover 22:2 (2018)
“Fear of the Lord" in Windhover 22.1 (2018)
"When Blooms Are Brief and Friends, One Fewer" in Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry (2018)
"The Enemy" in Reflections, Yale Divinity School: a magazine of theological and ethical inquiry," Spring 2018
2017
"Judge" in Adanna, Issue 7, 2017
"Exercise" in Gargoyle 65, 40th Anniversary Issue, 2017
"Pejorate" in Gargoyle 65, 40th Anniversary Issue, 2017
"Revelation" in The Windhover 21.1
"Process Success Measures," "Managing Your Meta-Buzz," "How to Survive Mental and Physical Distress," "Down the Hatch," "Seven Billion Secrets on Planet Earth" in Vine Leaves Literary Journal: A Collection of Vignettes from Across the Globe, edited by Jessica Bell, Melbourne, Australia, 2017
"Heroics," Honorable Mention in The Best of Kindness 2017, edited by Jan Keough and Kevin Keough, Origami Poems Project, 2017
"Chic Is the New Dumpy" in Tiger's Eye: A Journal of Poetry, Issue 26, 2017
"The PERL Acronym for There's More Than One Way to Do It Is Pronounced Tim Toady" in Tiger's Eye: A Journal of Poetry, Issue 26, 2017
2016
"Romance by Number" in Rabbit 19: A Journal of Non-Fiction Poetry, Prose Poetry Issue, 2016 (Australia)
"According to a Recent Study, Self-Identification Serves to Organize the Person" and "Holding Strangers' Inconsolable Babies" reprinted in Wild Horses: Women on Fire 2016, ELJ Publications
"Take with a Grain of Salt (cum grano salis)" in Naugatuck River Review, Summer/Fall 2016
"In Memory Of," in Adanna 6, 2016
"According to a Recent Study, Self-Identification Serves to Organize the Person" and "Holding Strangers' Inconsolable Babies," reprinted in Wild Horses: Women on Fire, 2016, edited by Ariana D. Den Bleyker and Samantha Duncan, ELJ Publications (2016)
“Strife” in The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins, edited by Daniel Westover and William Wright, Clemson University Press (2016)
“Zeitgeist” in Broad River Review, Vol. 48, Spring 2016
“The Importance of Feeling Special” in Star 82, Issue 4.3 | READ HERE
“Coming of Age in Lesbos” in All We Can Hold website | READ HERE
“Inter-Subjective Affect” in Oxford Poetry XVI.i, Winter 2015 – 2016
“Highly Fungible,” on NewVerse.News site | READ HERE
"Eureka! Corner Drugstore, Slushy March Afternoon" reprinted in The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology edited by Jerry Bradley and Ulf Kirchdorfer, Lamar University Literary Press (2016)
“Another Cock and Bull Story” in Gargoyle 64. http://talkingwriting.com/excommunicate
2015
“Eureka! Corner Drugstore, Slushy March Afternoon,” in minnesota review, Issue 85.
“Renewal” in ARTS, a publication of the Society for Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, 2015. | READ HERE
“I Like to Look Around and Pretend I’m God,” Adanna: Women and Spirituality, Fall 2015.
“Inclining,” Seminary Ridge Review, Volume 18, Number 1, Autumn 2015.
“Fake Take’s Gone Mainstream,” WomenArts Quarterly Journal, Volume 5, Issue 3, 2015.
“On Learning There Is Such a Thing as Failure” at Silver Birch Press, 5/24/15 | READ HERE
“Trappist Monk (1915-1968)” in The Merton Seasonal: A Quarterly Review, Vol. 40, No. 2, Summer 2015.
“Interlude” and “Partial” from the Psalm Responsorial series and “If You’ve Got Breast Cancer” in Windhover: Journal of Christian Literature, Volume 19, Spring 2015.
2014
“abandon hope, all ye who enter here (or driving home after a New Jersey poetry reading),” Tiger’s Eye: A Journal of Poetry, Issue 24, 2014.
“Counter Talk,” Adanna: Women and Food, 2014.
“Saint Nicholas and My Party Guests Do Double-Takes,” St. Peter’s B-List: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints, edited by Mary Ann Miller, Ave Maria Press, 2014.
“You Can’t Say That Unless You’re Rumi,” Windhover: Journal of Christian Literature, 2014.
“Recognition;” “Spirit” in Anglican Theological Review, Winter 2014.
“The Art of Selective Perception” in Sentence 10.
2013
“What Mama Said” in The Mom Egg 11 (Mother Tongue issue), 2013.
“Hope Is a Many-Splendored Thing” in Cresset: A Review of literature, the arts, and public affairs, Advent/Christmas 2013.
“Royal Garment” in Spiritus, Fall 2013.
“Gauntlet” in Assisi, 2013. | READ HERE
“A Short Manual on Flying;” “Walter Mitty, Wonderbra and I Were Born in 1947” in Gargoyle 60, 2013.
“To My Husband, Who 33 Years Ago Died at the Age of 33” in Rattle 41, Fall 2013 (with audio) | READ HERE
“Gaps” in Cresset: A Review of literature, the arts, and public affairs, Trinity, June 2013.
“Everyone, Regardless of Age or Background, Can Learn to Stretch,” womensvoicesforchange.org, 4/7/13. | READ HERE
“Saint Clare Shares the Gift of Tears;” “Dear Simone” in Relief, 6:2, 2013.
“Concert;” “Wings;” “Pact” in Windhover: A Journal of Christian Literature, 2013.
“Desiderium: Ardent Longing, as for Something Lost” in Gargoyle 59, 2013.
2012
“Let Me Tell You a Story That’s Not a Story” in “It’s Political” issue, Verse Wisconsin, October 2012. | READ HERE
“The Mastery of Chancery” in epistolary issue, poemeleon, Summer 2012. | READ HERE
“What Latin Has That English Doesn’t;” “My Other Grandmother” in Innisfree Poetry Journal 15, Fall, 2012. | READ HERE
“Jane Jefferson (1721-1776) to her Son Thomas,” in Copperfield Review, Summer 2012. | READ HERE
“Longing” in The Other Journal, Issue 20, 2012.
“Overheard at a Big Box Hardware Store” in Ruminate Magazine, Issue 24, Summer 2012.
“Tears” in Anglican Theological Review, Winter 2012.
2011
“An American Cento” in The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems, edited by Theresa Malphrus Welford (Red Hen Press, 2011).
“Imagination Is Never Wasted on the Young” in Pirene’s Fountain, 2011. | READ HERE
“Soft Skills for Today’s Job Market” in The Binnacle: Eighth Annual Ultra-Short Competition, 2011.
“The Optimist” in 111O, 2011.
“Fine” in Adanna Literary Journal, Issue 1, 2011.
“Holding Strangers’ Inconsolable Babies” in The Mom Egg, 2011.
“Self-identification, according to a recent study, serves to organize the person” in Magma 49, 2011.
2010 and before (selected)
"Happenstance" in MOTIF vol. 2 – Come What May: An Anthology of Writings About Chance edited by Marianne Worthington, Motes Books (2010)
"Batons" in From the Porch Swing – memories of our grandparents edited by Ginny Greene, Becky Haigler, Kerin Riley-Bishop, Barbara B. Rollins, Silver Boomer Books (2010)
"To You Who Speak of Audré Lorde" in Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-po Listserv edited by Moira Richards, Rosemary Starace, Lesley Wheeler, Red Hen Press (2008)
"Change" reprinted in Alternatives To Surrender edited by Martin Willitts Jr., Plain View Press (2007)
EarthLight Spiritual Wisdom for an Ecological Age by Cindy Spring and Anthony Manousos and Various Artist (2007)
JUNE COTNER ANTHOLOGIES
Baby Blessings: Inspiring Poems and Prayers for Every Stage of Babyhood, edited by June Cotner, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2017
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Earth Blessings: Prayers Poems and Meditations, edited by June Cotner (2016)
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Get Well Wishes: Prayers and Poems for Comfort and Healing, edited by June Cotner (2015)
Toasts: The Perfect Words to Celebrate Every Occasion, by June Cotner and Nancy Tupper Ling. Viva Editions (2014)
Garden Blessings: Prose, Poems and Prayers Celebrating the Love of Gardening by June Cotner (2014)
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Soar! Follow Your Dreams by June Cotner (2014)
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Gratitude Prayers: Prayers, Poems, and Prose for Everyday Thankfulness by June Cotner (2013)
Say a Little Prayer: A Journal by June Cotner (2011)
Serenity Prayers: Prayers, Poems, and Prose to Soothe Your Soul by June Cotner (2009)
Miracles of Motherhood: Prayers and Poems for a New Mother by June Cotner (2007)
Forever in Love: A Celebration of Love and Romance by June Cotner (2006)
Pocket Prayers Deck: 36 Praises & Graces for All Faiths by June Cotner and Susy Pilgrim Waters (2006)
Wishing You Well: Prayers and Poems for Comfort, Healing, and Recovery by June Cotner ( 2005)
Comfort Prayers: Prayers and Poems to Comfort, Encourage, and Inspire by June Cotner (2004)
Looking for God in All the Right Places: Prayers and Poems to Comfort, Inspire, and Connect Humanity by June Cotner (2004)
Wedding Blessings: Prayers and Poems Celebrating Love, Marriage and Anniversaries by June Cotner (2003)
Baby Blessings: Inspiring Poems and Prayers for Every Stage of Babyhood by June Cotner (2002)
Mothers and Daughters: A Poetry Celebration by June Cotner (2001)
Bless the Day: Prayers and Poems to Nurture Your Soul by June Cotner (1998)
Bedside Prayers by June Cotner (1997)