Willard Spiegelman’s probing biography, ‘Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt,’ describes how she rose to meteoric heights in the poetry world relatively late in life.
Poetry
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
‘Dante’ and ‘Desire’: 2 poetry collections confront modern crises in ancient style
Micheal O’Siadhail’s ‘Desire’ and Angela Alaimo O’Donnell’s ‘Dear Dante’ are collections designed and erected meticulously in an ancient style that an avid reader is unlikely to see in much contemporary poetry.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Poet, feminist and nun: Sister Madeleva Wolff’s ideal of the ‘well-rounded woman’
A poet and a woman religious whose work often appeared in America, M. Madeleva Wolff, C.S.C., is known for much more than her verse. She was also a pioneer in Catholic education in the United States.
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The 2024 Foley poetry contest: art that pierces and disrupts
Poems like these at the very least deserve more eyes on them, and we are more than happy to make that happen.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Fighting fire with fire: Why the Holy Spirit sometimes sends suffering our way
A Homily for Pentecost, by Father Terrance Klein
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
PBS’s ‘Dante’ introduces the divine poet—and neglects his Catholic faith
Ric Burns’s splendid two-part PBS documentary, “Dante: Inferno to Paradise,” has brought Dante’s achievement beyond the groves of academe and into America’s living rooms.
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Review: In his latest book, Christian Wiman looks despair in the face
In ‘Zero at the Bone,’ Christian Wiman offers a prismatic series of 50 chapters (52, counting the mystical zeros at the beginning and end) featuring essays, poems, theological reflections, personal reminiscences and literary analyses.
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Spring poetry roundup: Mini catechisms in verse
In one way or another, these collections bear the traces of the divine, of the needful Christ.
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The timeless Celtic spirituality of John O’Donohue, poet and priest
John O’Donohue focuses on how paying attention to the outer landscape of our world cultivates the inner landscape of our soul.
Posted inArts & Culture, Interviews
The Odyssey’s first woman translator on war, religion and why Homer still matters
An interview with Emily Wilson discusses the importance of the ‘Iliad’ to both young and old readers, its relationship with faith and what lessons we can glean about essential human nature from such an ancient text.