Faith is main inspiration for street cop's hard-edged poetry, prose
Faith is main inspiration for street cop's hard-edged poetry, prose Friday, Dec. 18, 2020 By Catholic News Service Sarah Cortez — Catholic essayist, poet, anthologist, academic, literary mentor and reserve police officer in Harris County, Texas – made the decision in midlife to leave a corporate career to sign up with the Houston area police service. Since turning to writing two decades ago, Cortez has published five books of prose and poetry, written dozens of magazine articles and edited nine anthologies of poetry. Her debut work, “How to Undress a Cop” (2000) features 51 poems, som...