Between Jan. 1 and March 31 over 1,000 poems were sent in for America’s annual Foley contest.
Joe Hoover, S.J.
Joe Hoover, S.J., is America’s poetry editor and producer of a new film, “The Allegory.”
Posted inPoetry
Looking for justice in poetry: America’s spring poetry review
Social movements need great art.
Posted inIn All Things
Taking back ‘New York Values’
The moneyed, socially-liberal elite Mr. Trump turned Ted Cruz’s insult on its head.
Posted inFrom Our Archives
Poetry editor Joseph Hoover interviews award-winning poet Annabelle Moseley.
Annabelle Moseley has authored nine books including several poetry chapbooks two full-length poetry collections and a young adult fantasy novel Her most recent book is a double volume of poetry A Ship to Hold the World and The Marionette rsquo s Ascent nbsp Wiseblood Books 2014 Among other d
Posted inIn All Things
In “Jay and Ruby Get Religion,” giving up a monologue in order to talk about God
The speech about “The Outsiders” was fantastic. But it had to go.
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‘Called to Salt-Work’: This year’s Foley poetry contest
This year’s Foley poetry contest
Posted inBooks
Spiritual Immobility
Any review is really about the reviewer himself, writes Joseph Hoover, S.J., in his yearly poetry roundup.
Posted inArts & Culture, In All Things
Catholic Imagination Attacked by Skateboarders Part the Third: “Catholic Literati: The Next Generation”; or Whoever Named this Panel Wasn’t Going to Be Sitting On It
At The Future of the Catholic Literary Imagination quot conference the most dynamic panel for my money was the one entitled quot Catholic Literati The Next Generation. Given this title I feel for the three men who made up the panel Randy Boyagada James Matthew Wilson and Josh Hren
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Catholic Imagination Attacked by Skateboarders Part the Second: Tobias Wolff and Julia Alvarez Are Nice People
The ldquo Future of the Catholic Literary Imagination rdquo the conference organized by the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies and held on the campus of U S C was lovely for many reasons For one I have read nearly all the stories of Tobias Wolff ldquo Hunters in the Snow rdquo ldquo
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Catholic Imagination Attacked by Skateboarders: Uninjured, But Pressing for Martyrdom
Speaking at a university conference is always a near occasion of pretentiousness.