Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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”
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?
Friday Links, April 16, 2021
Interviews; Poems Read; Tolkien Illustrations; Poetry Contest
Friday Links, August 21, 2020
Catching up with links we didn't have room for last week.