Hailemichael, newly blind,
Heads down the street without his cane.
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Poetry
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Review: ‘Dickinson’ struggles to transform a poet into feminist warrior
The new show subverts the traditional Dickinson iconography, but also takes away the best part of her.
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Unpacking ‘St. Peter’s B-List’: Poems on faith, laughter, guilt, anguish and hope
The new selection of the Catholic Book Club is a collection of poems about the saints.
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Tiny scriptures of truth: America’s 2019 poetry roundup
New American poetry that spans the globe.
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‘The Translation of the House of Loreto’
You bet it takes a miracle to explain
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Why Micheal O’Siadhail is an epic poet for the 21st century
“The Five Quintets” is a narrative we need, a jazz concert performed by hundreds of instruments, a single symphony sung by many voices.
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Mary Szybist on the Pressures of the Catholic Imagination | 2019 Hunt Prize
Meet Mary Szybist, poet, teacher, and recipient of the 2019 George W. Hunt, S. J., Prize for Journalism, Arts & Letters. Ms. Szybist’s collection of poems, “Incarnadine,” explores her forging a new relationship with the imagery surrounding the Annunciation.
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Or
the birds of winter are
resting in resilient decadence or
I’m not resting when there’s so
little time left for resistance