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December 2015

December 11, 2015

Poetry Friday: “Annunciation” by Katharine Coles

Each Friday at Good Letters we feature a poem from the pages of Image, selected and...

December 04, 2015

Poetry Friday: “Ex Nihilo, Then Us” by Robert McNamara

Each Friday at Good Letters we feature a poem from the pages of Image, selected and...

November 2015

November 30, 2015

Saying the Name of God

Recently, I spent a good part of three weeks promoting an event that my parish...

November 11, 2015

The Man Living Under the Overpass

My daily bike-ride near downtown Tucson is not picturesque. It’s along a bike trail that’s...

November 06, 2015

Poetry Friday: “Canticle of Want” by Marjorie Stelmach

Each Friday at Good Letters we feature a poem from the pages of Image, selected...

November 05, 2015

The Odyssey: Homer’s Retort to Current U.S. Policy

Are you as numb to news of war as I am? We the American public...

October 2015

October 19, 2015

Here at Last is Love: The Poems of Dunstan Thompson

I get tingly with anticipation when I'm about to meet a new poet. I don't...

September 2015

September 29, 2015

Save the Economy: Read the Classics

I was reading Pope Francis's encyclical Laudato Si when I began an article called "What...

September 09, 2015

What’s Wrong with this Picture?

Underlying what's wrong with this picture is where it resides. Not in a museum of...

August 2015

August 11, 2015

Happy Pride Parade

I was in tears watching my city's Gay Pride parade go by this year. Yes,...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

Poets and Pope Embrace our Planet

Poets have no problem seeing the world evolving within God's care. Okay, that's too general...

July 10, 2015

My Evolving Identity

I've just read a thirty-page article called "Whitman Music: The Problem of Adaptation." A...

June 2015

June 17, 2015

Wanted: God—Dead or Alive?

If you practice a religion faithfully—faith-fully—, why do you do this? And why is it...

May 2015

May 27, 2015

What Cannot Be Fixed

I remember the time when "entropy" was all the rage. It must have been in...

May 04, 2015

Las Madres: Art and Death in the Arizona Desert

"The artist is a beggar because she is empty, waiting to be filled. But the...

April 2015

April 17, 2015

Jesus Through Poets’ Eyes

In my Catholic faith, Easter lasts for seven weeks, until Pentecost; so I'm not too...

April 02, 2015

The Kiss of Judas

When Judas approached Jesus in the Garden and kissed him, how do you think Jesus...

March 2015

March 23, 2015

The Healing Art: Doctors Prescribing Poems

My hematologist, who has monitored my leukemia for the past ten years, copied me into...

March 10, 2015

The Art of Evil

Seeing a fine production of Othello recently has got me thinking about the art of...

February 2015

February 17, 2015

The Inner Life of Everyday Objects

On a morning when I was doing laundry, I was also reading Edward Dougherty's new...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

The House Where Beauty Lives

"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe...

January 20, 2015

The Birmingham Project

I was looking into the eyes of a black girl around thirteen years old. She...

January 05, 2015

#BlackLivesMatter to Poets

Poets are rising to the cause, hands raised ("Don't shoot!") but hands also holding pencils...

December 2014

December 18, 2014

Thinking About Poverty

What better time than Advent to ponder what poverty means? After all, Christ became poor...

December 01, 2014

Mantras for Advent

Last year at this time I wrote about suggestions my spiritual director had given me...

November 2014

November 10, 2014

Inside My Nostalgia Box

Look at my new Easter eggs. Red and blue with yellow legs. See them run...

October 2014

October 24, 2014

Billy Collins’s Art of Drowning

I always keep a poet by my bed. Lately it has been Billy Collins, former...

October 03, 2014

Goodbye to My Nuclear Days

From the mid-1980s through the early 1990s, I devoted my research and writing to the...

September 2014

September 16, 2014

There’s No Original Art

What a joy to be knitting something beautiful for a woman I don’t know and...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

Fiction is Truer than Fact

In Jill Lepore’s extraordinary biography of Ben Franklin’s sister Jane, Book of Ages, a short...