Article The Same Anew The poet Donald Revell believes that seeing—true seeing, ecstatic seeing—is the poet’s real task.By Anthony DomesticoSeptember 2, 2021 Poetry Interviews
Article Two Poems by W. S. Di Piero “I sang to myself, by myself, / in kitchen, garden, bed and car, / and begged the household gods to preserve /this being, this you I have in me.”By W. S. Di PieroAugust 24, 2021 Poetry
Article Two Poems by Donald Revell “The afterlife is an austere beast, / Fabulous but austere.”By Donald RevellAugust 24, 2021 Poetry
Article Poem | Quintet of Cinquains “The hill— /ritual hike/to the top of the world.”By Tiina AlemanAugust 23, 2021 Poetry
Article Critical Loitering Michael Hofmann’s writing is elegant, funny, and very strange, less interested in synthesis than exploration.By Anthony DomesticoAugust 12, 2021 Poetry
Article ‘Drop a Notch the Sacred Shield’ The strange, syncopated, joyful, and utterly inimitable music of Etheridge Knight’s poemsBy Christian WimanJuly 31, 2021 Poetry Spirituality
PoliticsPersuading Anti-vaxxers What comparison captures both the individual and communal benefits of vaccines? Traffic laws.By Michael PeppardAugust 16, 2021
ReligionA Beautiful Day, A Horrible Event From the archives: Faith in the Resurrection does not cancel out what happens on the cross; the cross is its beginning.By John GarveySeptember 11, 2021
CultureThe Same Anew The poet Donald Revell believes that seeing—true seeing, ecstatic seeing—is the poet’s real task.By Anthony DomesticoSeptember 2, 2021
BooksTroubled Waters Reefs are sacred spaces where scientific certainty gives way to mystery and awe. But climate change has made their extinction a very real possibility.By Bryan P. Galligan, SJAugust 29, 2021
CollectionsNational Poetry Month April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate, we’re collecting poems and writings about poetry, with new additions by our literary critic every Friday.By The EditorsApril 7, 2021
CollectionsFiction in Commonweal To celebrate the publication our summer fiction issue, a new collection of short stories from our archives.By The EditorsJuly 30, 2019
CollectionsMeeting the Stranger A Catholic response to refugees and immigration through the pages of CommonwealBy The EditorsFebruary 14, 2018
