Sestina for my Father
My father could make a concentration camp into a game, but the game would be his own calamitous mood swings. Dining room table...
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By Robert Funderburk
- Apr 6
- 8 min
Profiles in Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson was not welcome in the world into which he was born, the village of Head Tide in the town of Alna, Maine....
By Mathew Ehret
- Mar 31
- 4 min
Leaping from Despair into Hope: The Lesson of Rembrandt’s Resurrection for Today’s Troubled World
Today, the world finds itself moving through a turbulent transformation between two systems. Collapsing at a faster rate every day are...
By Adam Sedia
- Mar 27
- 13 min
Celebrating the Life of Robert Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963)
“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” —Robert Frost To many in America, Robert Frost is the grandfatherly originator of “The...
By Adam Sedia
- Mar 24
- 29 min
The Final Disintegration and Renewal of Hope: Postmodernism's Ironic Self-destruction and Poetry’s Rebirth
Follow us on Substack for exclusive features As the thousand different isms of our age fall from their pedestals and countless illusions...
By David B. Gosselin
- Mar 22
- 9 min
Profiles in Poetry: Johann Wolfgang Goethe
"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation." —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 –...
By David B. Gosselin
- Mar 15
- 22 min
Hollywood, Predictive Programming and You: Are We Living in a Science Fiction Movie?
As part of our on-going civilizational short story project, enjoy this latest deep-dive into the magical world of movies and fiction....
Translation
- Mar 2
- 2 min
The Legend of the Horseshoe by Wolfgang Goethe
When Jesus Christ still walked over the Earth, Outcast, and not yet known by holy birth, Though followed by many an eager youth Who...
By Michael R. Burch
- Mar 1
- 1 min
Where Does the Butterfly Go?
for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba Where does the butterfly go ... when lightning rails ... when thunder howls ... when...
By Karel Vereycken
- Feb 26
- 21 min
On the Track of the Sublime With Hieronymus Bosch
The following article is an edited version of a conference presentation at La Chapelle en Vercors, Spring 2002. “We are ravished by the...
By Jeffrey Essmann
- Feb 22
- 1 min
The Snowdrop
One winter day I wandered Alone inside a park With thoughts of how I’d squandered The light in me for dark In wayward years gone by. And...
By David B. Gosselin
- Feb 17
- 3 min
Journey Through Mountains: The Waterfall, Mastery and Details
The Waterfall “So noisy are the towns and villages,” remarked The sage as he and his young pupil made Their way across the bustling...
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