National Poetry Month

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Pattern & Novelty

From Michael Robbins and Hannah Sullivan, grown-up poetry and poetry about growing up.

By Anthony Domestico

April 30, 2021

Poetry

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The most distinctive and seemingly impossible feature of the poem is its ability to create a new kind of time.

Creating Time

By Anthony Domestico

April 23, 2021

Poetry

Books

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Celebration & Lamentation

Celebrating community and rootedness through poetry

By Anthony Domestico

April 16, 2021

Poetry

Race

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The House of Merrill

Letters from James Merrill and verse from poets who follow him, all exploring arcana with surprising rhymes and intricate musicality.

By Anthony Domestico

April 9, 2021

Poetry

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Poem | Face to Face

Hazard to dip / one shoulder lower, then snake yourself / through the straits of bone

By Nate Klug

July 1, 2020

Poetry

Feature

Anyway in Spring

He’s got the crazy light about him that he had in the beginning. Before cancer. When everything that he said startled her.

By Danielle Chapman

April 21, 2019

Spirituality

Poetry

Women in the Church

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The Poetry of Sam Menashe

The short poems of Samuel Menashe are unique: self-contained epigrams, charms, wishes, prayers, descriptive one-shots, shapely units of quotable wisdom.

By Stephanie Burt

February 5, 2020

Poetry

Jewish-Christian Relations

Spirituality

Death and Dying

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Saying the Unsayable

Poet and novelist Fanny Howe is an experimental writer’s experimental writer, the author of dozens of books, one who remains publicly, committedly Catholic.

By Anthony Domestico

September 27, 2019

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Poems | From ‘The First Church’

They walked the mote. / Brown grasses pansies roses white clematis and hellebore. / Glad to live below and have mercy and no power

By Fanny Howe

October 4, 2019

Poetry

Spirituality

Theology

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Under a Watchful Gaze

For expatriate poet A.E. Stallings, selfhood is always relational. It’s not what we see that makes us who we are, but rather what sees us

By Anthony Domestico

December 15, 2018

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Poem | Once Again

The moon is low, its silent flame // across the garden of roses, almost level / with the harbor.

By Lawrence Joseph

May 1, 2020

Poetry

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‘So Many Selves’

The selves that constitute the poet Lawrence Joseph are particularly numerous and peculiarly unlikely: he’s a Catholic, a leftist, an Arab-American, and a lawyer.

By Anthony Domestico

March 17, 2020

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Oh, to be an Oxford don tasked with
formulating questions about relativism,
cultural imperialism, Dark Energy, Dark Matter,
Las Vegas, and the present status of concepts of “the soul”!

Poem | All Souls

By David Lehman

February 25, 2021

Poetry

Feature

A Choreography of Praise

A profile of the Irish poet Micheal O’Siadhail, whose dancing lines sing the joy and jazz of creation.

By Anthony Domestico

August 6, 2018

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Somewhere in Between

Heaney’s legacy and his continued popularity as a lyric poet rest on the twelve volumes from which this selection is chosen. What makes his work so alluring?

By Micheal O’Siadhail

November 29, 2019

Poetry

Spirituality

Theology

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A bird, undeterred, tries to squeak
juice from April ice
as crocuses wince
behind black snow

Poem | Good Friday Migraine

By Danielle Chapman

March 7, 2018

Poetry

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An Interview with Christian Wiman

The poet discusses "accidental theologies," Gerard Manley Hopkins, faith in literature, and what it's like no longer being the editor of Poetry magazine.

By Anthony Domestico

April 16, 2014

Secularism and Modernity

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Faith Comes Through Hearing

“Some days, although we cannot pray—because we are too busy, or because we are in too much pain, or simply because the words will not come—a prayer utters itself.”

By Christian Wiman

November 15, 2020

The Last Word

Spirituality

Poetry

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Lord of the Leftover

The collection ‘Oblivion Banjo’ is a major work of American poetry by a poet who draws the reader into the inner workings of his imagination as few others do.

By Susan L. Miller

March 24, 2020

Spirituality

Music

Poetry

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Dan Chiasson’s ‘The Math Campers’

Dan Chiasson’s latest poetry collection uses art as a way of joining the sublime and the earthly.

By Anthony Domestico

November 22, 2020

Poetry

Philosophy

Climate Change

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We calculate trajectories of moving objects
& analyze the chances of touching death,
then living instead

Poem | Math Drills

By Uma Menon

September 28, 2020

Poetry

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Home Songs

A new, polyphonic collection with poems by more than a hundred Latinx writers responds to the vexed problem of identity with expansiveness, not reductionism.

By Isabella Simon

June 12, 2020

Poetry

Social Justice

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Poem | Dear Shadow

It is long since we talked, since we walked / the Hudson like we used to.

By John Linstrom

November 24, 2020

Poetry