saved from the slaughter by that elect
and exile people
Poetry
Posted inFaith, News
Amanda Gorman’s Black Catholic parish watched with pride as she delivered the inauguration poem
“We are a community; everyone here is important,” said St. Brigid’s pastor, Josephite Father Kenneth Keke. “Whatever belongs to the parish belongs to everyone; in our parish, the success of anyone is the success of all.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Amanda Gorman’s inauguration poem revealed God—through its beauty
Amanda Gorman’s poem was like a lighting flash that spoke to eternal beauty
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Your Presence Is Requested
he pawed through his closet
like a bear in a blackberry bramble
Posted inFaith, Music
Millennials Confront True Meaning of ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’ (A Parable)
Oh the poor starving Africans! the six of us looking at each other like are you kidding me…
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
The radical embodiment of Louise Glück’s poetry
The recognition of Louise Glück with the Nobel Prize in Literature was a bright spot in 2020 for her fans and her fellow poets alike.
Posted inArts & Culture, Jesuitical
Podcast: Pádraig Ó Tuama on the sacramentality of language
A conversation with Irish poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama on faith, poetry, peace and reconciliation.
Posted inArts & Culture, Features
New beginnings for John Berryman and Robert Giroux
When John Berryman and Robert Giroux met at Columbia University in 1932, they would not have expected to forge a decades-long friendship that would result in over a dozen literary classics.
Posted inArts & Culture, Of Many Things
Books beyond imagining: an introduction to America’s 2020 Fall literary issue
Twice a year, America publishes special literary issues devoted in their entirety to the world of literature. In Fall Books 2020, a variety of authors and genres are explored, from fiction to poetry to biography and more.