Friday Links
June 19, 2026
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Lucy the Elephant, Margate, NJ
The View from Childhood book launch - a conversation with author, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell and Steve Knepper
The Whale-Road: On the kenning, the oldest naming-game we still play
Poetry Reading and Discussion with Christian Wiman
Who Is America’s Homer?
Hemingway Ate Here
Christians Reading Classics: Petrarch’s Canzoniere with A. M. Juster
The View from Childhood book launch - a conversation with author, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell and Steve Knepper
A really wonderful conversation with Angela and Steve about her book The View from Childhood. Lots of great thoughts about poetry, childhood, memories, and place.
The Whale-Road: On the kenning, the oldest naming-game we still play
I love this little essay from Tamarah Rockwood!
A kenning is not a metaphor, though it is metaphor’s near relation. The metaphor says one thing is another. The kenning is more cunning. It withholds the plain word entirely and hands you a substitute, two nouns yoked together, and trusts you to complete the recognition yourself. Sky-candle. You do the last small step. You arrive at sun, and because you arrived there rather than being told, the sun is briefly strange again, briefly worth looking at.
Poetry Reading and Discussion with Christian Wiman
This begins with a reading from Christian Wiman and then Major Jackson Wiman have a really wonderful conversation.
Who Is America’s Homer?
Plough asked a bunch of writers this question. The answers are ineresting and fun. Some, of course, are totally wrong, but that’s okay.
Hemingway Ate Here
A charming photographic “essay” from Elizabeth Stice.
Christians Reading Classics: Petrarch’s Canzoniere with A. M. Juster
Mike Juster joins Nadya Williams to talk about his new book:
Petrarch's Canzoniere — 366 poems written over 40 years in pursuit of a woman named Laura — introduced the sonnet to European literature and helped move poetry from Latin into the vernacular. It is also, as A.M. Juster's new translation makes plain, a deeply Augustinian collection: raw, confessional, and unresolved. Nadya Williams talks with Juster about the art of poetic translation, the discipline it demands, and why Petrarch still matters.
