Vita Poetica Journal

About Vita Poetica Journal

A quarterly publication of the Vita Poetica Arts & Faith Collective, our online journal features creative work explored through a spiritual lens. Vita Poetica connects and upholds artists of faith, enlivening spiritual conversations through the arts. Learn more about us at www.vitapoetica.org.

Publisher

Vita Poetica

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Jul 2021

Latest episode

28 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

253 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Aug 2026

   Poems by Barry Casey & Frank Paino

   Barry Casey reads his poem "Shekinah (https://www.vitapoetica.org/summer-2026/shekinah)," and Frank Paino reads his poem "The One True Miracle (https://www.vitapoetica.org/summer-2026/the-one-true-miracle)." Barry Casey is the author of Wandering, Not Lost, a collection of essays on faith, doubt, and mystery, published by Wipf and Stock (2019). His poetry has appeared in Fauxmoir, Half and One, Humans of the World, Lighthouse Weekly, Patheos, Pensive Journal, Rockvale Review, Spectrum Magazine, The Dewdrop, The Ulu Review, and Vita Poetica. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion from Claremont Graduate University and writes from Burtonsville, Maryland. Frank Paino has had four full-length books published, including, Dark Octaves (2025), winner of the Longleaf Press Book Prize. He has received a Pushcart Prize, The Cleveland Arts Prize in Literature, and an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council.

2. 

   25 Aug 2026

   Poems by Sharlee Mullins Glenn & Christina Ellison

   Sharlee Mullins Glenn reads her poem "Owl Light (https://www.vitapoetica.org/summer-2026/owl-light)," and Christina Ellison reads her poem "My mother points this out like it's something lighthearted (https://www.vitapoetica.org/summer-2026/my-mother-points-this-out-like-its-something-lighthearted)." Sharlee Mullins Glenn has published poetry, essays, short stories, articles, and criticism in periodicals as varied as Women's Studies, The Southern Literary Journal, Segullah, BYU Studies Quarterly, Ladybug, and The New York Times. She is also an award-winning author of children's books and a contributing editor for Wayfare. Christina Ellison is a fiction and poetry writer from Texas. Born and raised north of Houston, she currently lives within the cornfields of Nebraska. She is a fiction editor for Iron Horse Literary Review and New American Press, and her work can be found in Blood+Honey, fifth wheel press, The Hyacinth Review, and others.

3. 

   21 Aug 2026

   Poems by Isabel Chenot and Matthew E. Henry

   Isabel Chenot reads her poem "incarnation at Manafon (https://www.vitapoetica.org/summer-2026/incarnation-at-manafon)," and Matthew E. Henry reads his poem "waking with nightmares (https://www.vitapoetica.org/summer-2026/waking-with-nightmares)," both from our Summer 2026 issue (https://www.vitapoetica.org/summer-2026). Isabel Chenot has loved, memorized, and practiced poetry all her remembered life. Some of her poems are collected in The Joseph Tree, available from Wiseblood Books. Matthew E. Henry (MEH) is an educator, essayist, occasional fiction writer, and author of seven poetry collections, most recently Promises to Keep (Wayfarer Books, 2026). Editor-in-chief of The Weight Journal, a poetry editor at American Poetry Journal, and creative nonfiction editor at Porcupine Literary, MEH’s publications include Anglican Theological Review, Massachusetts Review, Mom Egg Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Ploughshares, Stone Circle Review, Terrain, Vita Poetica, and The Worcester Review. MEH earned an MFA yet continued to spend money he didn’t have completing an MA in theology and a PhD in education. He writes about education, race, religion, and burning oppressive systems to the ground at www.MEHPoeting.com (http://www.mehpoeting.com/).

Who has been a guest on Vita Poetica Journal

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Wayne Bornholdt
• Abigail Carroll
• Elizabeth Harlan-Ferlo
• Christopher Honey
• Sue Proffitt

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YouTube views

588

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 71 / 100

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Quality

92

Social presence

0

YouTube

64

Engagement

60

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