The Spring | Summer 2010 issue of The Basilica Review features the poems of Chrissy Rikkers, Renee Ashley, Jason Joyce, Sally Rosen Kindred, Julia Guez, and Karsten Piper. We emerge from hibernation as the winter ice melts and new light warms the landscape. More joyful for the thawing, we are born anew, each word a testament to this change.

The debut issue of The Basilica Review features the work of poets both established and new, the prize-winning and the previously unpublished. On these, our first pages, you'll find the poems of Julie L. Moore, Todd Davis, Bobby C. Rogers, Luci Shaw, Terri Kirby Erickson, Jack Ridl, and others. You'll find the sacred juxtaposed with the ordinary, the consecrated and the common, verse painstakingly compiled with the intention of bringing light to the world.