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December 24: Happy Birthday Dana Gioia

Dana Gioia, distinguished poet, critic, cultural observer, and Catholic, was born Christmas Eve in 1950. In the midst of an extraordinary career in which he has achieved widespread recognition and active sales of his poetry collections, a rare achievement for living poets, he continues to work towards another kind of success—seeking to bring not only poetry (which is much neglected these days) but also the work of fine Catholic writers back into the mainstream culture.

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Friday Links, March 18, 2021

+ What power does a poem have, and what work can it do?

+ Speaking of power, Elizabeth Lev shows how the power of art in Ukraine is cultural memory.

+ “The Future of the Catholic Literary Imagination” 2022 Catholic Imagination Conference. Are you going?

+ St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry is offering the chance to audit one summer course for free—including one on the nature of aesthetic experience, the relationship between truth, goodness, and beauty, and the role of beauty in liturgy.

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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, February 19, 2022

+ Presence: the Journal of Poetry, preview reading of Spring 2022 issue, February 20.

+ Scala Foundation Conference Spring 2022: “Art, the Sacred, and the Common Good,” April 30, and in addition, for writers 17-35:

+ Poetry Contest: winners announced at conference.

+ Poetry Masterclass with James Matthew Wilson May 1.

+ Summer Writers Institute of the MFA creative writing program at the University of St. Thomas, Houston.

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Friday Links, December 24, 2021

+ Read a reflection on the treasure of chant by a choir director (Diana Silva) and listen to an explanation of the readings of the first Mass of Christmas

+ See how a professional writer/editor/mother/child-wrangler (Rhonda Ortiz) manages an interview

+ Learn from a famous contemporary poet (Dana Gioia) how to balance writing with a full time job.

+ Watch a video of a musical setting of a Christmas poem (by James Matthew Wilson).

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Friday Links, December 3, 2021

+ Dante again, this time he’s inspiring a poetry contest.

+ CUA students launch a literary (and arts) magazine.

+ Joshua Hren will speak at a Scala webinar 12/9 and he’s finally got a website.

+ James Matthew Wilson’s latest, a review.

+ Rhonda Ortiz and Eleanor Bourg Nicholson talk about werewolves, fainting damsels, and genre fiction.

+ Joseph Pearce is grateful for all we all do.

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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.

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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, June 4, 2021

+ A late for Lent reflection about the Liguori Stations + Innovative religious drama podcasts + James Matthew Wilson poem featured at a dive bar/pizza place + Joshua Hren, Henry James & the misuse of beauty +