Joyelle McSweeney’s ‘Death Styles’—her 10th book across creative and critical genres—rewards our attention.
Poetry
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Review: Poetry of the seeking soul
A tourist who is out of time approaches the end of his or her trip and must return home soon. This is how the Rev. David May describes himself through his poems.
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Why you should read Richard Wilbur’s ‘Love Calls Us to the Things of This World’
A hymn to mercy and love, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” springs to my lips when my heart is quiet. I teach it as often as I can for my introductory poetry students.
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Washing windows at the Catholic Worker
Because this house is a dandelion gone to seed. Fragile and full of possibility.
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Lessons from ‘Lady Bird’: Angst, love and the prayerful art of paying attention
We often don’t recognize our influences until much later. It’s the things we’re closest to that we have the most trouble seeing clearly.
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Review: Amy Clampitt, the ‘late bloomer’ of poetry
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.
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‘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.
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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.
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Fighting fire with fire: Why the Holy Spirit sometimes sends suffering our way
A Homily for Pentecost, by Father Terrance Klein