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May 2016

May 25, 2016

Impounded by Poetry

By Cathy Warner After one glass of wine, one poetry reading, and two hours, my...

May 20, 2016

Poetry Friday: “In the Beginning Was the Word” by Jeanne Murray Walker

I can't begin to count the number of poems which offer their language to re-imagining...

May 13, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Middle Distance, Morning” by Margaret Gibson

I read this poem as a meditation on how one can relate to the outside...

May 06, 2016

Poetry Friday: “The Moss Method” by Pattiann Rogers

I've long loved Pattiann Rogers' poems: how they caress nature's most minute details with acutely...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

Poetry Friday: “When God Dreamed Eve through Adam” by Richard Chess

The Genesis story of the creation of Adam and Eve: poets for centuries have been...

April 27, 2016

Annie Spans the Gap, Part 2

This editorial statement from issue 88 is continued from yesterday. Read Part 1 here. In...

April 22, 2016

Caution: National Poetry Month

How do you know if it's a poem? Maybe it’s a month, a month-at-a-glance, many...

April 15, 2016

Poetry Friday: “The Grackles” by Betsy Sholl

Here is a poem that silently enacts a conversion. The poem starts off with a...

April 13, 2016

Finding Another World in Winterkill

"There is another world, but it is in this one." —William Butler Yeats Reading Yeats's...

April 12, 2016

Charles of the Desert

By Rebecca A. Spears One early June, traveling to a wedding in San Diego, I’d...

April 08, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Smokers, Sunday Morning, 1975” by Bobby C. Rogers

This poem seems at first to be a straight-forward narrative: a childhood recollection of the...

April 06, 2016

James Tate: Finding the Ultimate in the Ordinary

The poet James Tate died last year. It happened in July. He was seventy-one years...

April 04, 2016

Choose Life, North Carolina

This day, I call upon the heaven and the earth as witnesses: I have set...

April 01, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Creed in the Santa Ana Winds” by Bronwen Butter Newcott

Growing up in southern California, I experienced the uneasy allure of the Santa Ana’s hot...

March 2016

March 25, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Divine Wrath” by Adélia Prado

Multiple members of my family live with chronic pain, which is why I’m always arrested...

March 22, 2016

Refugees Are People, Not a Crisis

Sometimes the horrors in the news are so overwhelming that I’m left speechless. This is...

March 11, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Meditation on the Evangelista” by Karen An-Hwei Lee

What if God turned up at your door in the form of a brush salesman?...

March 04, 2016

Learning Poetry, Unlearning God

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

February 2016

February 23, 2016

Poetry in a Season of Lament, Part 2

Two Poets Laureate On Grief, Detachment, and Finding New Ways to Live, Part 2 By...

February 12, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Sabbath” by Dan Bellm

Sabbath as beloved bride and queen: familiar tropes in Jewish liturgy and thought. Now, thanks...

February 08, 2016

Why Art?

I'm propped in bed reading my current bedtime novel. Pausing to reflect on a particularly...

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...

December 2015

December 21, 2015

Come, Lord Jesus

I've always loved Advent's "O" Antiphons. These are the prayers traditionally voiced during the final...

December 18, 2015

Poetry Friday: “Christmas Morning in a Hotel Room” by Carrie Fountain

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

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 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...

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 20, 2015

Poetry Friday: “George Herbert on the Road to Salisbury” by William Wenthe

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

November 18, 2015

Christian Kerfuffles, Taking Offense, and the Poetry of Li-Young Lee

In late October, I had the privilege of teaching two workshops at the Indiana Faith...