Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Friday Links
Tessa Carmen reviews The Anxious Generation; Adam Sacks on the Esoteric Wokeness of ‘Ancient Aliens’; 2024 Emerging Translator Residency; Autumn Poems; Inklings on the Move: Less Oser in Law and Liberty
Mysteries and Medicines
New music from Father Isaiah
The Screaming Deer
LaDonna Friesen on the jarring relationship between peace and violence.
Friday Links
with Winners of the First Things Poetry Prize; Inaugural Issue of New Verse Review; No Stage Catholics: Robert Wyllie; Shroud of Turin dates from time of Christ; Zena Hitz: What Is Time For?
In Dante’s city
Mike Dillon explores Ravenna, Italy’s City of Mosaics
Friday Links
with False Light: Moral Worldbuilding and the Virtues of Evil; Mike Mastromatteo reviews Contemporary Catholic Poetry: An Anthology; The Essence of Everything: A distiller muses on alchemy, monasticism, and the Philosopher’s Stone; Scoundrel or Saint? A Return to Robin Hood
Clothed
Angela Townsend’s prayer on behalf of those who aren’t quite ready to don their robes of suffering.
Friday Links
with Mark Dooley on Building, Beauty, and Belonging; James Matthew Wilson on Joseph Bottum; Jimmy Lai; The Merry Beggars; The Secular Priest for a Secular Age
Every good gift
Jamey Toner on the “ancient unity” of giver and gift.
Friday Links
Keturah Hickman in Plough; Danielle Heckenkamp on Karen Ullo’s “To Crown with Liberty”; Joan Bauer; NVR, Carter Davis Johnson, & Robinson Jeffers; A Conversation with Ben Palpate & James Matthew Wilson
Five books on the craft of writing
Oso Guardiola recommends craft writing books the way he recommends recipes
Friday Links
Christian Wiman on HEaney’s letters; Sir James MacMillan Discusses Tradition and Creativity in Music; Waxing Poetic with A. M. Juster; William Fear on Wodehouse; Lucas Smith on Christopher Koch; Dr. Daniel McInerny Popular Entertainment and the Good Life
The economy of beauty
Michael Yost’s commentary on Shakespeare’s Sonnet IV
Friday Links
Invincible Communion: A Toast
Adriana Watkins toasts all the things we’ve lost, and all the things that through the communion of saints will be found again.
Friday Links
Marly Youmans on the Poet’s Eye View; “The Path” from Alfred Nicol, Lucas Nissan reviews Ethan Mannon’s Georgic Mode; Joseph M. Hassett: Imperishable Song; The Rose Fire from Paul Pastor; New Verse Review Is Open For Submissions
What humans are
Jacob Riyeff on how we can help ourselves and others in the “AI Moment”
Friday Links
Changes at DT; Ryan Wilson Steps Down from Literary Matters; J. C. Scharl on Dorothy Sayers; Cups on a String by Emily Leithauser; Fitzcarraldo Editions Makes Challenging Literature Chic
“With a mingling of gratitude, grief, and joy”: Dappled Things Announces Editorial Change
Following my nose
Jeffrey Essmann follows the scent of his memory and ends up at the divine.