1-7-13: The Poetry of Sister Maura Eichner

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For almost 50 years, Sister Maura Eichner was a fixture on the campus of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, which is now known as Notre Dame of Maryland University.  She taught Creative Writing and Literature and she published more than 350 poems in magazines, literary journals, and in 10 books and chapbooks.  She died in 2009, and a group of her colleagues and friends chose some of her poems for a book called After Silence: Selected Poems of Sr. Maura Eichner. Michael Storey is one of those friends, and an editor of the book.  Tom Hall talks with him, along with Caryn Coyle, a former student of Sister Maura, and a poet herself. You can read an essay by Caryn on the writing process here, in The Little Patuxent Review.

If you're interested in purchasing a copy of After Silence, send an email to NDMAlum@ndm.edu and Notre Dame's alumni relations staff will make arrangements.

You can see Sister Maura reading some of her own poems in this video recording at WMAR-TV in 1990.   Here she is reading "The Old Nun."