Deep Down Things

Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.

Friday Links, March 25, 2025 Feast of the Annuciation
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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
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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
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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
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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.

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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, August 20, 2021
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Friday Links, August 20, 2021

+ A podcast discussing Hopkins’ poem, “God’s Grandeur.”

+ Fatima Shaik, only the third African American and the first Black woman to win the 2021 Louisiana Writer’s Award.

+ What would public literary criticism and scholarship mean?

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