Penelope Duckworth

Penelope Duckworth's poems have appeared in The American Scholar , Yankee , The Christian Century , Poetry Northwest , Theology Today and other journals and she has won prizes for her poetry from West Wind Review and Montalvo Center for the Arts in Saratoga, California. She is an Episcopal priest and serves as Artist-in-Residence at Trinity Cathedral in San Jose, CA. She is currently teaching in the Department of Theater and Dance at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, CA. She is the author...See more

Penelope Duckworth's poems have appeared in The American Scholar , Yankee , The Christian Century , Poetry Northwest , Theology Today and other journals and she has won prizes for her poetry from West Wind Review and Montalvo Center for the Arts in Saratoga, California. She is an Episcopal priest and serves as Artist-in-Residence at Trinity Cathedral in San Jose, CA. She is currently teaching in the Department of Theater and Dance at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, CA. She is the author of three other books in the field of religion, as well as an award-winning play on the Rehabilitation trial of Joan of Arc. Poet Mary Oliver wrote of her second book, Mary: The Imagination of Her Heart (Cowley Publications, 2004): "Penelope Duckworth's many-faceted meditation on Mary, the mother of Jesus, gave me, as even the few sentences in the New Testament could not, an understanding of Mary's influences throughout history, and even more important, perhaps, a vibrant tenderness for her experience, for her life. The text is fascinating, careful and yet lyrical. This book is pure gift." See less