Those wooden floors with their pine-scented antiseptic
Paul Mariani
Paul Mariani, poet and biographer, is a former poetry editor at America and University Professor of English Emeritus at Boston College.
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In the Footsteps of Ignatius: Following a saint through Spain
Following a saint through Spain
Posted inFilm
Searchers: James Franco, Hart Crane and me
Together with director James Franco, Paul Mariani set out to find the poet, Hart Crane.
Posted inPoetry
The Fathers: For Fr. Bill McNichols
From house to house he treks, and inn to inn, the feral dogs
Posted inCulture
History and Language
How to approach—I mean adequately approach—the devastating reality of Ground Zero from Ground Zero? What happens to perception, history, language, syntax and grammar—to say nothing of lungs, flesh and brain—at that level as the second airliner rips into the swaying tower fill
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
What Remains Is Love
I met James Torrens S J for the first and only time sometime in the mid-1990 rsquo s in August at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in Vermont He was an editor then at America living in mid-town Manhattan in the years before I myself became the poetry editor there and I was eager to meet hi
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Hopkins in Ireland for the Jesuit community at Boston College
Above the bluebleak priest the brightblue fisher hovers.