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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 13, 2015

Receiving “What Is”

With gratitude and apologies to Peter Cole I would like to share this poem with...

February 2015

February 06, 2015

My God Is Better Than Yours

What a miracle! They had been freed, the Israelites, from Egypt, but moments after they...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

Kissing Sideways

“I want to write,” people often tell me, eager to talk about the myriad ways...

January 08, 2015

Girl Meets God in the Classroom, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. On the first day of my class “Spiritual Autobiographies: Theirs and Ours,”...

January 07, 2015

Girl Meets God in the Classroom, Part 1

I had used Lauren Winner’s Girl Meets God once before in class, an honors freshman...

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 23, 2014

The Ardent Whisper of God

Guest post by A.N. Muia The following post is adapted from a talk given at...

November 2014

November 20, 2014

The Treasure in the Trash

As much as I associate Kansas with The Wizard of Oz, I have yet to...

November 19, 2014

Trouble Called Again Last Night

Trouble called again last Thursday night. The number illuminated in the landline phone's small window....

November 13, 2014

Epic Tales: an Interview with Amit Majmudar, part 2

Guest post by Sarah Arthur Continued from yesterday. SA: In your essay “Me and the...

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 29, 2014

Greg Wolfe Made Me a Better Writer: 25 Years of Image

Guest post by William Coleman To celebrate Image’s twenty-fifth anniversary we are posting a series of...

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 10, 2014

Pasternak: Artist and Holy Fool

As I read the essay “The Writer and the Valet” in my latest issue of...

October 09, 2014

Commodifying Myself

Guest Post by Ryan Pemberton “It’s a funny feeling,” I confessed to an editor-friend as...

October 02, 2014

The Saint John’s Bible: Back to the Future

The story of how the text of the Bible was set down and transmitted is...

October 01, 2014

Who Lives? A Meditation for the Days of Awe 5775

“And who by fire, who by water, / Who in the sunshine, who in the...

September 2014

September 22, 2014

The Demons That Possess Us

When I graduated from Seattle Pacific’s MFA program, I was sorely disappointed to hear Greg...

September 16, 2014

There’s No Original Art

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

September 03, 2014

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Creative Writers According to St. Augustine, Part 2

Guest post by Gregory Wolfe The post, continued from yesterday, is adapted from a commencement...

September 02, 2014

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Creative Writers According to St. Augustine, Part 1

Guest post by Gregory Wolfe The following is adapted from a commencement address given at...

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...

August 26, 2014

Lessons of The Giver

Memory, of both the best and the worst, is central to guidance. Without it, we...

August 19, 2014

Susan Sontag, Simon Weil, and the Pursuit of Seriousness

I could stare for many hours at that famous 1975 picture of Susan Sontag lying...

June 2014

June 09, 2014

Ripping Out My Past

I’m in the attic staring at boxes. One is labeled Journals, 1979-1985. Another is Journals,...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

Courage in Community: 25 Years of Image

Guest post by Hunter Sharpless To celebrate Image’s twenty-fifth anniversary we are posting a series...

May 16, 2014

Avoiding the Mirror

Guest post by Cathy Warner I have circled around this story several times, trying to...

May 07, 2014

Christians in the Age of Sincerity

Guest Post By Dyana Herron Image has just published its 25th anniversary issue (#80). We’re...

May 06, 2014

What Now?

Guest Post By Scott Cairns Image has just published its 25th anniversary issue (#80). We’re...