Roseanne T. Sullivan 3/25/22 Roseanne T. Sullivan 3/25/22

Friday Links, March 25, 2025 Feast of the Annuciation

+ Joseph Pierce on the mystery of suffering inspired by a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

+ On the persistence of “Expansive Poetry’—with the history of the movement.

+ Interview with Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, and playwright, about his plays.

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Friday Links, January 28, 2022

+Hopkins’ poetry read by the actor who plays Jesus.

+ Dante poetry contest overwhelmed with submissions: good news for procratinators.

+ ‘Mary: The Paper Doll Project” & how Catholics and Protestants differ in their response.

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Friday Links, November 12, 2021

+ James Matthew Wilson announces the first annual Summer Writers Institute.

+ Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life.

+ Can signing your name to a graffiti-ed wall affirm your enrollment in the communion of saints?

+ What do you think? Is Sally Rooney this generation’s greatest Catholic novelist?

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Friday Links, November 5, 2021

+ James Matthew Wilson podcast interview at Deep Down Things, the podcast (not us)

+ Kerry McCarthy, Early Music singer and biographer of Renaissance composers Byrd and Tallis, is interviewed about the traditional choir schools put down by the Reformation.

+ Word on Fire reminds us that “Momento Mori” is a Catholic thing.

+ In time for Christmas giving, a chance to order artwork by Daniel Mitsui and get a free Momento Mori giclée print you might keep for your own contemplation of the Four Last Things.