Latest Poem
- A Lost Rosary Calls to Thomas Merton, Gethsemane, Kentucky, 1949
“Gratitude is… constantly awakening to new wonder….”
— Thomas MertonTake me in your hands, Father.
Lift me to your lips.
Chant the air with prayer.Rub my beads with oil
and hope. Hold the holy
mysteries linking decadesworn and weathered,
rejoicing
that the lost is found.
Mary Alice Dixon, co-editor of Kakalak Journal of Poetry & Art and multiple Pushcart nominee, leads Grief Writing And Collage Workshops for Hospice. She recently won the NC Writers’ Network Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition, the Poetry Society of SC John Edward Johnson Prize for a Poem on a Religious Theme and has been a finalist for the NC Poetry Society Poet Laureate Award. She is the author of the chapbook Snakeberry Mamas: Words from the Wild (Charlotte Lit Press, 2025). Her poetry appears in numerous places, including Amethyst Review, Catholic Poetry Room, Clayjar, inScribe, Pinesong, Soul Forte, and Swing. She lives in Charlotte, NC where she grows dogwoods and sunflowers in cow manure. Mary Alice is honored to often serve as a preliminary judge in Catholic Literary Arts Sacred Poetry Contests.
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