T.S. Eliot attracts and repels all at once—but reading his ‘Four Quartets’ has been a formative experience for many a spiritual seeker.
Poetry
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Joan of Arc in Her Prison
her wrists are shackled, / her head’s in her hand.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Meet Atticus, the Instagram poet who never takes off his mask
“Atticus is a storyteller, observer…. He loves the ocean, the desert, whiskey and playing with words.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
A love letter to Gerard Manley Hopkins
I offer three ways I love you: (1) for your wild poetic imagination; (2) for your poems about unnoticed people; and (3) for your poems about the Divine.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
The tragedy of Joyce Kilmer, the Catholic poet killed in World War I
The celebrated writer is best known for his 1913 poem “Trees.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: When the dish is good, it’s delicious
Donald Hall tries to place a seal upon his own literary legacy by remixing his best origin stories and famous friendships.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Substance Theory
reaching for Teresa reaching for Thérèse reaching for Teresa reaching for the utter center
of the divine diamond fruit, an arrow into flame
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
I’m Never Told of Family Funerals
Surely now, the Blessed Virgin
would cure Aunt Rose of polio.
