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Poetry
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How to win the Foley Poetry Contest: Don’t try to win
Writing poetry for prizes is a fool’s errand.
Posted inPoetry
They tell us border nets, 10,000 feet high,
What good are great blue herons reflecting our quiet thoughts
Posted inCatholic Book Club
The poets, priests and politicians of Ireland’s Easter Rising, 110 years later
110 years after the Easter Rising, Ireland’s history and literature of resistance still inspire.
Posted inThe Good Word
Dying like Christ: To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield
A Homily for Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion, by Father Terrance Klein
Posted inThe Good Word
The night before he died, Christ brought something new into the world
A Homily for Holy Thursday, by Father Terrance Klein
Posted inArts & Culture
Finding a Lenten vulnerability in Rilke’s ‘Letters to a Young Poet’
I inherited many books from my older brothers—esoteric books from the 1970s on running and weightlifting, and Pietro di Donato’s classic novel Christ in Concrete, about an Italian immigrant family of laborers shattered by the death of their patriarch. But my favorite is Letters to a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke. It is a […]
Posted inIdeas
Dylan Thomas was a difficult person. But ‘Fern Hill’ is a perfect poem.
To understand this poem, you don’t need biography. Your own personal understanding of the loss of innocence and the pain of mortality serve just as well.