20th Anniversary Issue 2026

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With celebration and joy, this 20th Anniversary Anthology Issue features favorite selections across Dappled Things' rich history.

With celebration and joy, this 20th Anniversary Anthology Issue features favorite selections across Dappled Things' rich history.

Feature

The Catholic Writer Today: A Retrospective Interview with Dana Gioia a Decade Later

Responses

Sally Thomas on poetry

Randy Boyagoda on fiction

Caleb Kortokrax on visual art

Poetry

Simple 
Marjorie Maddox

The New Pope Talks About the Contents of His Briefcase  
Dante Di Stefano

The Fletcher
William Begley

What Thomas Saw
Jamey Toner

Richeldis of Walsingham 
Sally Thomas

Scryn  

Thrines  

Hus  

The Consolation of Oranges 
James Matthew Wilson

The Quarantine Notebook 
James Matthew Wilson

March 15, 2020

April 18, 2020

May 1, 2020  

When the War Comes Here 
Jeannine M. Pitas

Columba in Scotland 
Michial Farmer

Roman April 
Meredith McCann

Fiction

The Off Season 
Ennis James Sheehan

Lilies for the Harvest 
Oso Guardiola

Antediluvian 
Fr. Anthony Lusvardi, S.J.

Non-Fiction

Desire of the Everlasting Hills 
Elizabeth Hansen

Why You’re Wrong About Medieval Art 
Daniel Mitsui

Decadence and the Drum-keeper 
Paul J. Pastor

This Sickness is Not Unto Death 
Joshua Hren

How to Think Like a Poet (excerpt) 
Ryan Wilson

Visual Art

Joseph Macklin

Archangel Triptych 

The Last Supper (work in progress)

The Cosmological Vision of the Holy Mass (detail)

Saint Gerard Majella

The Holy Prophet Nehemiah

The Cosmological Vision of the Holy Mass

Holy Family