After Silence:The Poems of Sister Maura Eichner S.S.N.D.

After Silence:The Poems of Sister Maura Eichner S.S.N.D. by Sister Maura Eichner. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780615520001.

Sister Maura Eichner, poet and teacher, inspired many of her students to become published writers. After Silence, a new selection of poems previously published by Sister Maura, is now available for sale. During her life, more than 350 of Sister Maura’s poems were published in literary magazines, journals and newspapers including America, The New York Times, Yale Review and Commonweal; and in ten collections, including “Initiate the Heart” (1946), “The Word is Love” (1958); “Walking on Water” (1972), “What We Women Know” (1980) and “Hope is a Blind Bard” (1989). Among her numerous awards was the prestigious Theodore Hesburgh Award for Contribution to Higher Education in 1986. An alumna of Notre Dame’s class of 1941, Sister Maura died in 2009,at the age of 94. In her honor, Notre Dame established the Sister Maura Eichner Endowed Chair in English. Over the years, Sister Maura’s students won many awards in national writing contests sponsored by The Atlantic Monthly, Lyric and other magazines. In the 21 years of Atlantic’s student-writing contests, Sister Maura’s students won 297 awards, including nine first-place honors.