By Adam SediaJan 2511 minThe Spice of Life: Metric Variation in Formal VerseIn 1688, John Dryden, England’s first official poet laureate, was deprived of that title for remaining Catholic and replaced with the...
By Kevin Blankinship Jan 252 minMediterranean Fortunes & Other PoetryMediterranean Fortunes A cold, dry Mistral gallops down the Rhone, reminding of what Dumas wrote: a count, falsely accused, rotting...
By David B. GosselinJan 191 minAncient DreamsI saw a young bard, A prince sitting on An ancient divan, Plucking the strings Of his Dorian lyre. His dainty fingers Strummed the gentle...
TranslationJan 141 minUnfit Gifts by Rabindranath TagoreAt sunrise, I cast my nets into the sea, dredging up the strangest and most beautiful objects from the depths ... some radiant like...
By John SteeleJan 92 minThe Gate & Other PoemsThe Gate It’s not so hard to turn into a gate. To do so, just assume this shape: from kneeling, stretch one leg out to the side, place...
By Karel VereyckenJan 220 minOn the Track of the Sublime With Hieronymus BoschThe following article is an edited version of a conference presentation at La Chapelle en Vercors, Spring 2002. “We are ravished by the...
By Adam SediaDec 31, 20211 minThe New YearThe fields stretch out, bare, icy: __Wide, blank, yet-unetched slates, Tabulae rasae, waiting __The chisel of the Fates, But deep beneath...
By Daniel LeachDec 28, 20211 minThree Traditional Haikus by Daniel LeachLike ghosts, the buildings Watch the changing earth and sky— Nothing is empty. Though in dark shadow, Gnarled and bent, it seems to rise...
Fr. Dwight LongeneckerDec 24, 20211 minNativityForget your Christmas cards and little crèche the cutesy donkey, sheep and shepherd boys. Put away the twinkle lights and all that trash;...