Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Our 2023 J.F. Powers Prize Short List!
We are thrilled to share with you our 2023 J. F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction finalists!
In search of lost ale
Like fermentation, Homeric nostimon blooms with age. But is it real?
Friday Links
with a St. Patrick’s Day poem from Poems Ancient and Modern; a Mary Lou Williams Lecture and Gala Performance at the Hank Center; Sally Thomas on Jessica Wooten Wilson’s, Why Do the Heathen Rage?; James Matthew Wilson on the “somewhat exaggerated death of poetry”; & David Schaengold on ugly, poorly built buildings
The wooing of Bethlehem
All my anxieties, all my dreads and confusions were hushed by the flow of gentle majesty streaming from Heaven. This is not the sort of state and experience that just happens to one out of the blue, or that even happens when beholding a lovely sunrise on the way to work or in harking to the chords of a beautiful piece of music. This is a kind of serenity that transcends any natural faculty for responding to loveliness or glory.
Friday Links
The New Criterion: The Critic’s Notebook, An Exquisite Charity by Denise Trull, Josey Parker on Cicero, Stone, Clay & Wood from Ewan Craig, Art & Truth: Exploring the Responsibility of the Artist
Deadline Looming for the Sacred Heart Art Competition
A friendly reminder to submit your work to our sacred art competition, and a thorough look into the art of Sacred Heart.
Friday Links
Tara Isabella Burton: On Good Parties, Dan Hitchens on Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists, The Sacred and Profane Love Podcast is back with Patrick Deneen on DeLillo’s White Noise, Anecdotal Evidence on Henri Coulette, Poetica: “Dear March - Come in” by Emily Dickinson
A letter to my baker
On the subtle art of baking and the tortured geniuses who keep us lining up at the bakery counter morning after morning.
Friday Links
The Tin Can Residency, Frank Guan On Don DeLillo, Art as Obedience by Madison Morris, Lenten Realism from Glenn Arber, Adam Fleming Petty on Ben Lerner
And I alone am escaped to tell thee
“Ernest Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.” J.D. Harlock on writing as an act of defiance in the face of grave evil.
Friday Links
with Ian McGilchrist in First Things, Catholics Need Poetry, Luke Coppen & Bishop Varden, Nayeli Riano on T.S. Eliot, Ryan Wilson & Catholic Literary Arts, & Raffaella: A New Fairytale Ballet
Ash Wednesday and the comfort of death
A moving reflection by Kerri Christopher about miscarriage and hope.
Friday Links
Poems Ancient and Modern , Risking Enchantment talks about Poetic Vision: The Catholic Case for Everyday Poetry, Trinitarian Genealogies: Father, Son, and the Spirit of Modernity, The Roots of Knowing: A Dive into Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse's Novellas, Hunger by Narine Abgaryan
A writer’s catechism for the Lord’s Prayer
Angela Townsend offers a fresh perspective on the Lord’s Prayer that you won’t want to miss.
Friday Links
Teaching as a form of kinship
“The people who teach us claim us somehow. We often refer to what we owe them as a debt. But it isn’t a debt. It wasn’t participation in a transaction, not with the sisters. It was participation in a blood line. It wasn’t a transaction; it was a transfusion.”
Friday Links
with Shadowlands Dispatch, Climbing the Mountains of Modernity & Ekstasis and the Chicken Truck, The Honest Broker: Notes Toward a New Romanticism, Katy Carl reviews Why Do the Heathen Rage?, Collegium Institute & DT Global Catholic Literature Seminar on Jon Fosse
How (not) to run an art competition
Daniel Mitsui explains why he won’t participate in the art competition sponsored by St. Peter’s Basilica and recommends that you don’t, either.
Swift Going
Peter Bast explains how attending a Taylor Swift concert is the closest we’ll get to participating in a Viking berserker attack, along with offering a lengthy meditation on crowd dynamics, the nature of the modern music industry, and the road our current civilization path is taking us (we might not want to go).