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July 2017

July 14, 2017

Poetry Friday: “The Human Share”

Here’s a brilliantly crafted poem which I love, even though it makes me a bit...

July 03, 2017

Nonviolence and the Virtue of Hope

It was nonviolence that initially brought me to my spiritual director, Fr. Bill Shannon. I...

June 2017

June 30, 2017

Poetry Friday: “The Fawn”

Narrative poetry has its special challenge: how does it differentiate itself from prose? David Mason’s...

June 23, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Japanese Wall Hanging”

I find myself reading this poem both literally and as a metaphor for our lives....

June 19, 2017

Reading Love Nailed to the Doorpost

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

June 16, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Prayer”

I used to collect poems that are prayers, so Sharon Cumberland’s “Prayer” immediately leapt out...

June 02, 2017

Poetry Friday: “June Prayer”

How to pray for someone bent over by grief when nature is stretching upward in...

May 2017

May 24, 2017

Alleluia for the Easter Season

I used to find Easter a letdown. Lent is so full of the self-improvement activities...

May 19, 2017

Poetry Friday: “The Spirit of Promise”

Memories can make good material for poetry. In “The Spirit of Promise,” Daniel Donaghy is...

May 10, 2017

Quartet for J. Robert Oppenheimer

What would you think of a biography of a famous person written in the form...

May 05, 2017

Poetry Friday: “The Aging Maria”

The prose poem is a challenging genre. After all, what distinguishes “plain prose” from “prose...

April 2017

April 21, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Sewing Box”

We don’t think enough—or at least I don’t—about how objects can contain memory. But Murray...

April 17, 2017

Praying the Art of Sean Scully: The Match of Prose and Visual Art

When I finished reading Paul Anel’s article on the chapel art of Sean Scully, in...

March 2017

March 27, 2017

Heisenberg and the A-Bomb: Just Say No

I read through the article breathlessly, astonished at the moral implications of what I was...

March 17, 2017

Poetry Friday: “In Tandem”

Here is a poem that takes aim at our clichés about aging and death. It...

March 10, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Grief Daybook: A Love Supreme”

It’s fairly common for a poem to be inspired by (or be in conversation with)...

March 03, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Ghazal: Woman at the Well”

I’ve always found the ghazal form intriguing. Its couplets, all discrete, are linked by a phrase...

February 2017

February 27, 2017

Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Our Rumbling Nation

This is an age of the world when nations are trembling and convulsed. A mighty...

February 17, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Afternoon Swim”

The play of grammar has always lured me. I’ve wondered: why do English sentences take...

February 10, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Erasure”

Have you ever felt that your own existence is being called into question? That you...

February 01, 2017

John Slater’s Lean

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

January 2017

January 27, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Gravity and Grace”

There was a time, early in my process of conversion to Christianity, when I took...

January 20, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Sister Storm”

I love the drama of this poem. Its title recalls St. Francis’s “Canticle of Brother...

January 17, 2017

Black Lives, Black Art

I happened to be re-reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin when the current issue of Image (#90)...

January 10, 2017

Meeting Islam in Interfaith Friendships

In 1993 my husband George Dardess began visiting our local Islamic Center: first to learn...

December 2016

December 30, 2016

Poetry Friday: “New Year, Good Work”

A delightful scene is set in this poem. At the start of the new year,...

December 23, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Carol of the Infuriated Hour”

Christmas carols: we love their joyous celebration of the birth of Christ. In “Carol of...

December 20, 2016

Kathleen Wakefield’s Invisible Stenographer

You’ve got to meet this character. She’s a stenographer by trade: From the outset she...

December 02, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Advent”

Of course you’ve heard of “El Niño.” And you know that it refers to the...

November 2016

November 28, 2016

Saying Yes to the Annunciation

Of all the Gospel episodes, the Annunciation has long been one of the favorites of...