You can read Dana Gioia’s latest poem at First Things here: Psalm to Our Lady Queen of the Angels.
Central to the poem is the theme of Mary’s association with the exiled and dispossessed, a word of comfort in our Herodian age:
She has been homeless with a hungry child,
A refugee fleeing a brutal warlord.
A mother, she held her murdered son.
Her crown is jeweled with seven sorrows.
