Devin Kelly

"The word "prayer" has its roots in the Latin adjective precaria, a word for which another English word, "precarious," owes its origins. That link between prayer and precarity—uncertainty, dependence, trembling—is something I have found myself considering more often lately: how we live in such a precarious state— individually, politically, socially—and how prayer, then, becomes synonymous with living, since living is forever an in-between. I turn to poetry as a way to address the unanswerable, to think of breathing as just another kind of questioning, and to work continually on accepting and living within my own precarity." Devin's In This Quiet Church of Night, I Say Amen is available from Civil Coping Mechanisms Press