Greg Pardlo’s new memoir clips quickly along and burdens the reader with almost no slow moments.
Poetry
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Review: In ‘Wild Nights with Emily’ love casts out fear
Dickinson is not a poet stunted by fear of living, but an eccentric hermit delighted by the world and delighting in her craft.
Posted inArts & Culture, Interviews
Catholic poet Dana Gioia: Is poetry still a spiritual vocation?
I never try to impose narrow, moral interpretations on art. Poetry is mostly about the joyful discoveries of language and imagination.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Facets of the Maker: the life and work of Mary Oliver
In “Steepletop,” an essay in which Mary Oliver recalls her time living at Edna St. Vincent Millay’s estate of the same name, she insists: “We need to be each others’ storytellers—at least we have to try. One wants to know what the beautiful strangers were like—one needs to know. Still, it is like painting the […]
Posted inArts & Culture, Of Many Things
Reading for fun: introducing our Spring Books 2019 issue
Books for every kind of reader are featured in our Spring Books special literary issue.
Posted inArts & Culture, Features
The literary landscape of Barry Lopez
For decades, Lopez has sought to re-establish our ethical relationships with the land and the other creatures who dwell on it. But Lopez, like many authors, struggles against labels.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Come Is the Love Song
A poem by Jessica Powers from The Second “America” Book of Verse, a collection of the best of America poetry, 1930 to 1955.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Why is our prayer met with God’s silence?
Intimacy can only be shared between those who love. It cannot be summarized. Intimacy lives in silence.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
St. Brendan’s Round Boat
It wanted to turn, the stern rocking around
to the front, taking the place of the bow,
the bow to the stern, port to starboard
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Psalm 103
The orchid book says to stop watering
right before you think it’s enough, which doesn’t
help much