(re)love

“These poems grip and liberate, they breathe you in and blow you suddenly elsewhere. With the liveliest insistence, with a succinct honesty so gentle that sorrows and hopes land like seeds in the soil of now, Michaela Atencio opens the reader into ‘this gap/between time and eternity’s collisions called the present.’”


—Catherine Keller, Drew University





“(re)love is a tender journey into the honest and rich soils of self-reflection and compassion. Through the gifts of their own experiences, Michaela’s poetry welcomes the reader to search our own depths and that of the world around us and find there a kind and loving divine embrace.”


—M Jade Kaiser, co-founder and director of enfleshed





“With deftness and gentleness, Michaela Atencio creates a spacious place to exhale, to see and be seen, and to come home to ourselves. In their vulnerability and presence, Atencio welcomes all parts of themself, and in doing so, invites us all to do the same.”


—Laura Jean, queer writer and theologian