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November 2015

November 13, 2015

Poetry Friday: “Mixed Company” by Brett Foster

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

November 06, 2015

Poetry Friday: “Canticle of Want” by Marjorie Stelmach

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

October 2015

October 28, 2015

Sonia Sanchez Made Me a Jewish Poet; Rhonda Magee Helped Make Me Whole

Black. Muslim. American. Woman. Poet. The languages she spoke. The ground on which she stood,...

October 19, 2015

Here at Last is Love: The Poems of Dunstan Thompson

I get tingly with anticipation when I'm about to meet a new poet. I don't...

September 2015

September 29, 2015

Save the Economy: Read the Classics

I was reading Pope Francis's encyclical Laudato Si when I began an article called "What...

September 25, 2015

The Harboring Silence, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. The following editorial statement from issue 86 of Image is adapted from...

September 24, 2015

The Harboring Silence, Part 1

The following editorial statement from issue 86 of Image is adapted from a commencement address...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

Poets and Pope Embrace our Planet

Poets have no problem seeing the world evolving within God's care. Okay, that's too general...

June 2015

June 24, 2015

Franz Wright: Solving the Problems of Poetry

Maybe all poets are unhinged. There is historical evidence for this going back to ancient...

May 2015

May 27, 2015

What Cannot Be Fixed

I remember the time when "entropy" was all the rage. It must have been in...

April 2015

April 23, 2015

Fever

By Dyana Herron When well, it’s easy to forget how utterly miserable it feels to...

April 17, 2015

Jesus Through Poets’ Eyes

In my Catholic faith, Easter lasts for seven weeks, until Pentecost; so I'm not too...

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...

March 05, 2015

Remembering Phil Levine

By Paul Mariani Note: We asked the author, one of Image’s editorial advisors, to write...

February 2015

February 17, 2015

The Inner Life of Everyday Objects

On a morning when I was doing laundry, I was also reading Edward Dougherty's new...

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 05, 2015

#BlackLivesMatter to Poets

Poets are rising to the cause, hands raised ("Don't shoot!") but hands also holding pencils...

November 2014

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...

October 2014

October 24, 2014

Billy Collins’s Art of Drowning

I always keep a poet by my bed. Lately it has been Billy Collins, former...

September 2014

September 16, 2014

There’s No Original Art

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

July 2014

July 15, 2014

Everybody Should Write Poetry

People who read poetry but don’t write it are like those who have just heard...

June 2014

June 24, 2014

Emily Dickinson Erased

Don’t go to Emily Dickinson’s house in Amherst, Massachusetts. There isn’t anything there. Not her...

May 2014

May 20, 2014

Prado’s Ex-Voto: Dumbfounded By Mystics and Clothing Stores

What might it be like to truly live with God? Not in the way I...

April 2014

April 16, 2014

25 Years of Image, 18 of Glen Workshops

To celebrate Image’s twenty-fifth anniversary we are posting a series of essays by people who...

April 11, 2014

Poetry at the Goodwill

When I was a soccer-obsessed fifteen-year-old, I had no use for poetry. I endured my...

April 01, 2014

My Dinners with Philip Levine

“Poetry makes nothing happen,” W.H. Auden famously claimed—famously and perhaps disingenuously, for if nothing else...

March 2014

March 25, 2014

Letter to Stephen Dunn

Dear Steve, I’ve had to look away for most of three decades now—away from your...

March 20, 2014

Scott Cairns and his Idiot Psalms

Guest Post By Angela Doll Carlson W.H. Auden has said, “A poet is, before anything...

March 14, 2014

In the Kingdom of the Ditch

I used to find “nature poetry” boring. Descriptions of wind through the trees, hilltop vistas,...