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January 2021

January 27, 2021

Malcolm Guite’s Quarantine Quatrain

Yesterday there were less, tomorrow there will be more. How does one make sense of...

March 2018

March 21, 2018

THE ANTLIZT: March 21, 2018

A curated selection of articles of interest from the past week related to Christianity and...

February 2018

February 14, 2018

Two (and a half) Lent Devotional Recommendations

What do you recommend? Several people have asked me for recommendations for Lenten devotionals. Finding...

December 2017

December 28, 2017

Refugee: A Poem for the Feast of the Holy Innocents

December 28 is the Feast of the Holy Innocents, the day the Church remembers and...

August 2015

August 17, 2015

Christina Rossetti’s “They Desire a Better Country”

This poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) is my favorite poem I've read in a...

May 2014

May 07, 2014

Part the Second: Celestial Navigation OR The Stars of Poetry OR What are you looking at? OR Where the hell are we? and how the hell did we get here? and where the hell are we going anyway? OR Prose on Poetry: Frost, Keats, Shakespeare, and Dante, OR Polaris…Is that in France? OR I’m sorry

This is part two of a series, which despite its obnoxiously long title, is simply...

April 2014

April 06, 2014

Part Un: Celestial Navigation OR The Stars of Poetry OR What are you looking at? OR Where the hell are we? and how the hell did we get here? and where the hell are we going anyway? OR Prose on Poetry: Frost, Keats, Dante, Shakespeare OR Polaris…Is that in France? OR I’m sorry

After a brief hiatus due to general busyness with work and/or just plain ol’ living...

February 2014

February 25, 2014

Please Make the Bad Man Stop OR The End of Winter is Nigh OR Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Take on Things

After a very long, cold, and white winter in the Dirty, the past weekend of...