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April 2018

April 03, 2018

How Can I Speak of Haiti?

There’s nothing to say about Haiti. Even to begin, to start, to try, is to...

July 2017

July 18, 2017

Necessary Images, Part 2

This post, continued from yesterday, appears as the Editorial Statement in Image issue #93 on the art of film guest...

July 17, 2017

Necessary Images, Part 1

This post appears as the Editorial Statement in Image issue #93 on the art of film guest edited by...

June 2017

June 19, 2017

Reading Love Nailed to the Doorpost

If you want to be submerged in the depths of Jewish spirituality, this is the...

February 2017

February 01, 2017

John Slater’s Lean

What is poetry, anyway? I found myself musing about this as I sat with John...

July 2016

July 13, 2016

The Cult of Emotion

As a newish, struggling Christian recovering from two years in a fundamentalist youth group, I...

June 2016

June 03, 2016

“Translation Back into Native Tongues” by Nicholas Samaras

There’s a sub-genre of poetry in which the speaker’s persona is a long-ago figure or...

May 2016

May 10, 2016

Thin Places, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Read Part 1 here. In the rocky cave-like interior at Newgrange, the...

May 09, 2016

Thin Places, Part 1

A few summers ago, my husband Tom and I were in Dublin for a week,...

May 02, 2016

Love in the Time of Bacteria

Last week, I walked up Dale Street from the train station. It's a perilous walk...

March 2016

March 01, 2016

So Much for the American Dream

My six-year-old son caught me off guard. “I wish we had a backyard,” he said...

May 2014

May 27, 2014

Mystery and (Southern) Manners

It’s a chicken-and-egg kind of question I get all the time, but I don’t think...