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June 2017

June 22, 2017

Courting Babel

This month I thought it would be a good idea to take four hours of...

April 2017

April 10, 2017

Dancing with Words During National Poetry Month

Here’s your assignment. Choose a poem you’ve written (it could be any piece of writing,...

March 2017

March 23, 2017

Love Nailed to the Doorpost

The commandment to love is nailed to my doorpost. Ritualistically written on a little piece...

February 2017

February 01, 2017

John Slater’s Lean

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

October 2016

October 21, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Hive Boxes” by Megan Snyder-Camp

The sounds in this poem! I love its compactness and humming—its slender shape on the...

September 2016

September 19, 2016

The Power of Names

A few weeks back, the news related a story that a confederate veteran killed at...

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...

April 2016

April 26, 2016

Annie Spans the Gap, Part 1

The following appears as the editorial statement in Image issue 88. There is no such...

April 25, 2016

The Cave of My Imagination

By Jason K. Friedman Ma’arat Ha-machpelah, the alliterative name sounded as magical to me as...

April 14, 2016

There Must Be a Word for This

Now spring has come again, the season that’s best for hope. Post-Lenten promises are fresh...

March 2016

March 10, 2016

Praying the Rosary

By Laura Bramon My first rosary is invisible: a string of children’s voices ricocheting off...

March 04, 2016

Learning Poetry, Unlearning God

By Natasha Oladokun In my sophomore year of college, I wrote a poem. Though I...

January 2016

January 18, 2016

Poetry as a Weapon of Jihad

“Strap on a suicide vest? Join a global mission whose leaders preach hatred and acts...

January 05, 2016

A Metaphorical God, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. In some ways, “mystery” is perhaps the boldest term we chose as...

December 2015

December 22, 2015

Prayer: When You Can’t Find the Words, Make Them Up

I spent much of this past summer watching my friend’s three-year-old girl, Mia, as my...

December 09, 2015

Why We Donate: Two 24-Year-Olds on Meaningful Support

Today, Image Director of Programs Tyler McCabe and Marketing Associate Aubrey Allison share their perspectives...

July 2012

July 24, 2012

Conversation and (Self) Revelation

“Wonderful woman. Horrible children,” I overheard as I was leaving a store, right behind two...

June 2012

June 28, 2012

Who Needs to Read Anymore?

At the community college where I teach—actually in the state capitol two hours away—a massive...