Deep Down Things

Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.

Friday Links, April 1, 2022
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Friday Links, April 1, 2022

+ Sacramental Poetry, livestreamed or in person in Maryland, April 29.

+ Is Catholic Art coming back? National Catholic Register poses a question many are asking.

+ Getty Museum show presents ancient Jewish and Catholic manuscripts—”in dialogue.”

+ Catholic Literary Arts Sacred Poetry Contest 2022—Ekphrastic writing (in response to sacred art). Deadline 11:59 PM April 30.

+ Upcoming Catholic Literary Arts course on how Dante will make you a better writer.

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Friday Links, March 11, 2022
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Friday Links, March 11, 2022

+ Looking for a community of writers and artists? Check out Catholic Literary Arts.

+ The witness of Richard Wilbur to Christian virtue.

+ Who is taking up the mantle of Maritain, Hildebrand, and Gilson? Thomas Mirus asks James Matthew Wilson in a Catholic Culture podcast.

+ The joke’s on Satan: Jacob Riyeff writes about how the devil tricked his own self during Christ’s atoning Passion.

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Friday Links, January 21, 2022
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Friday Links, January 21, 2022

+ Death of a prominent Catholic woman philosopher/writer/educator.

+ Writing Query Letters, there’s a CLA class for that.

+ On Simon Weil and the loss of value in art.

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Friday Links, October 29, 2021
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Friday Links, October 29, 2021

+ Dark stuff for Halloween

* An invitation to a ZOOM about vampires, werewolves & serial killers, O My!

* An essay with more about the blood-drinking undead at Catholic World Report

* An EWTN interview with K.V. Turley and Fiorella De Maria about their novel about Bela Lugosi

* An article by Turley about the real horrors lived by Lugosi

* Ghost stories collected by Gerard Manley Hopkins

* Thirst: A Novel: Death of a priest

* The first horror moving picture—in 1896 (it really was scary!)

+ A round-up of print and online essays in DT’s “Symposium on Motherhood and Art”

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Friday Links, October 22, 2021
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Friday Links, October 22, 2021

+ Workshop on how to make space for the muse.

+ Three poems by a DT associate editor

+ Maybe Catholic fiction is becoming important again?

Image: Caliope, the muse of poetry and eloquence, holding the Odyssey (c. 1634). By Simon Vouet and workshop. At the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. This work is in the public domain (wikimedia.org).

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Friday Links, September 24, 2021
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Friday Links, September 24, 2021

+ Catholic Literary Arts Fall Series of workshops and lectures.

+ Katy Carl’s new novel, reviews, comments, & first day sales.

+ Duncan Stroik interviewed about positive trends in sacred architecture.

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Friday Links, September 17, 2021
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Friday Links, September 17, 2021

+ Now visible: a Cupid formerly overpainted on a well-known Vermeer.

+ Online seminar on Sigrid Undset’s Vows, with Katy Carl, starts Oct. 4.

+ Three ways Dante’s 700th death anniversary was observed this week.

+ Recent publications by Dappled Things editors and a contributor.

+ A retreat for artists and art lovers, with Dana Gioia and Kevin Turley, Sept 29.

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Friday Links, July 16, 2021
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Friday Links, July 16, 2021

Poetry and other publications mostly by present and past Dappled Things staff, and friends.

+ Sarah Cortez’s poem “Green”

+ Rhonda Ortiz’s essay on silence followed by a link to . . .

+ Rhonda Ortiz’s debut novel

+ Word on Fire on liturgical art.

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