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A heartfelt thank you to the following publications in which these poems first appeared: Anglican Theological Review: “Simon Peter’s Wife, on the Rabbi Jesus” ; Chiron Review: “Memory From Year of Substitute Teaching in Minneapolis Public”; Christianity & Literature: “What Marcus Borg’s Video Camera Might Have Seen If He’d Been Filming in Jerusalem In the Days Following the Death of the Jewish Peasant, Jesus”; Commonweal: “Saint Paul Lives Here (In Minnesota)” and “Flesh is Funny”; Dappled Things: “Benque, 2005”; St. Katherine Review: “Forgiveness”; Sojourners: “The Blades of Grass in the Garden of Gethsemane Speak to Me.”

Thank you to the wonderfully supportive writing community at Hamline University’s MFA program, especially Katrina Vandenberg, Jim Moore and Patricia Francisco, who contributed mightily to this project through their teaching and conferencing with me.

Special thank you to Deborah Keenan, poet and teacher at Hamline University, for five years of support and guidance. Without you, I would not be a poet.

To the community of teachers and students at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota where I have taught the past six years. Both teachers and students offer me daily inspiration and love. I have been fed and nourished here in ways I can’t begin to count.

To Jennifer Haselberger for your courageous decision to come forward and expose the cover-up of sexual abuse in the archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

To my friend, Andrew, who has been there with me through good times and bad.

To my family: my mother and father, Joan and John, and my three brothers, Jared, Nathan and Adam. Your unconditional love and support have given me the strength to write.

To Cristina. Your voice gives me courage to sing with my own. I love you.