Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Hit me with wine / With water
The Poetry of Caitlin Smith Gilson
Creative Writing as a Liberal Art
Including literature in a Catholic liberal arts curriculum is useless if students are not taught to think liberally, to think lovingly, about literature. This might be done simply by working literary criticism into the curriculum, but any science teacher knows that students learn better with a lab. The workshop is the lab of criticism.
On Reaching the June Moon
Watching a strawberry supermoon rise over Revere beach with Adriana Watkins
Craft as a Liberal Art
Oso Guardiola on the value of craft - “Without studying craft, assumptions about interpretation are made, and conclusions are drawn based on these assumptions. Reading, enjoying, feeling catharsis without craft is fine. Analyzing without craft is dangerous.”
Finding Bethlehem
Denise Trull muses on grandfathers and home while contemplating the classic book, “A Woman Wrapped in Silence.”
Carving
Jeffrey Essman considers the way in which poems are carved from silence.
The Memory of Heaven
St. Augustine and Thoreau On Spiritual Awakening
Forty
Allison Cundiff thanks God for breaking apart her expectations for what a family should look like and what it means to welcome a little one into the world.
The Finery of Tradition
Denise Trull meditates on the importance of handing on a living tradition of sacred, decorative arts.
Four and Twenty Blackbirds
Brother Bruno describes what it’s like to live as a Benedictine.
Congratulations to the Winners of the 2021 J.F. Powers Prize!
Under the Cottonwoods
Spend a moment under the Cottonwoods with John T. Walsh talking about Hopkins.
It’s Not Just the Profanity, It’s the Writing
Cringy Flaws In “Father Stu”—(That Didn’t Stop ETWN’s Father Mark Mary From Loving the Movie a Lot)
Two Modes of Reading
Peter Moccia on how to read old books for understanding
Mother’s Day
Sheila M. Cronin meditates on gift and motherhood
All is Grace: Georges Bernanos’s Diary of a Country Priest
Children of God
Lessons from Julian of Norwich and Mister Rogers
A Paper Trail to the Stars
A mother devoted to poetry and victorian era novels re-reads science fiction through the eyes of her sons, discovering unknown realms of beauty.
Friday Links, April 22, 2022
+ “Creative writing and evangelizing” course—Word on Fire
+ Caryll Houselander review
+ Catholic Women Writers Series by CUA
+ “The Architect” video about the architect of St. Michael’s Norbertine Abbey
+ Article about the architect in the above video.
+ Poetry reading by two poets who are also a doctor and a lawyer.
Reading Crime and Punishment with Dorothy Day
Stanley Visnewski, a long-time Catholic Worker, said, “the only way [one] would ever understand the Catholic Worker was by reading Dostoevsky.”