Emily Stout is a graduate of the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana English Program. She works nights as a registered nurse in the oncology deparment of a Midwestern hospital. Update your account password & emailSubscribe to Commonweal
Article Last Word: A Job, Not a Career Have we become afraid that the stench of poverty will rub off on us if we spend too much time in the company of those the Gospel calls us to serve? By Emily Stout October 9, 2014 Pope Francis Economy Poverty The Last Word
Article Poem | Picking Blackberries at Jubilee What delight goes undisguised? / In the secret shade, looking up into it, / A gasping coolness startles. By Emily Stout September 29, 2014 Poetry
Article Poem | Comfort & Justice She is casting into the rafters dark rainbows / Prisms in wood—the gauzy wings glitter over moon / Through your radiant—very radiant need. By Emily Stout September 29, 2014 Poetry
Article Poem | Recipe Book The hand-bound book is brittle / Note the fingerprints done in cinnamon By Emily Stout August 5, 2013 Poetry
