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What Is the Purpose of Poetry?

A CONVERSATION WITH CAITLIN SMITH GILSON

Cicero Bruce

Poetry was once understood to be an anthropological episteme, a way of knowing, if only through a glass darkly.

A Poet under the Mercy

James E. Person Jr

Many of Vanauken’s poems are reminiscent of Browning, Donne, the early Charles Williams, and others, in style, tone, and theme.

Respect (Rev. 3:20)

A POEM

Lorraine Bochler Eshleman

Four

A POEM

L.M. Williams

Sonnet for C.B.

A POEM

Thomas Fleming

Praise

A POEM

Lorraine Bochler Eshleman

Solomon Serves

A POEM

“Julian Norwich”

The Prodigal Father and His Child

A POEM

“Julian Norwich”

William Carlos Williams: A Doctor’s Faith, a Poet’s Faith

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

Williams knew how bored, self-centered, and self-indulgent the rich can be, and how desperately confused, vulnerable, and self-lacerating the poor often are.

The Soaring Birds of Freedom

A POEM

David Mitros

Sonnet

A POEM

“Julian Norwich”

John XXIII

A POEM

“Julian Norwich”

The Final Match

A POEM

Lorraine Bochler Eshleman

Thaws

A POEM

Susan Bergman

Who Taught You?

A POEM

Lorraine Bochler Eshleman

“Trilogy”

A POEM

Timothy Trainor

Epithalamion

A POEM

William Dunn

RHYTHM

A POEM

Susan Heyboer-O’Keefe

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

A POEM

Thomas Fleming

Processional (upon seeing Dürer’s woodcut of Roswitha)

A POEM

David W. Landrum

The Hill Country

A POEM

Ed Ingebretsen

Lines Written in the Dominican College Library

A POEM

Marianne Bluger

Boardwalk Fortune Teller

A POEM

F.P. Grady

Adam’s Second Day (waiting for Eve)

A POEM

Thomas Noe

To Phoebe*

A POEM

Mary Armitage

The Will

A POEM

William Dunn

Envy of the Empty Air

A POEM

Susan Heyboer-O’Keefe

Age of Aquarius

A POEM

R. Dey

The Elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water

A POEM

Jon Glenn

Pain of Late Conversion

A POEM

Dianne Clode

On the Trinity

A POEM

Sallie Odum

Autobiography of a Creature from Deep Heaven

A POEM

E. O’Brien Jr.

The Chain

A POEM

James Jacob Hege

Parting

A POEM

Charles R. Fink

The Hidden Years

A POEM

Pat Marchulones

Possessed

A POEM

Charles R. Fink

An Apostrophe to Wordsworth’s Period

A POEM

Laurie Hibbett

Failed Species?

A POEM

Ralph Wright, O.S.B.

In Memoriam 1685-1750

A POEM

Mark A. Noll

Turning

A POEM

Annis Cox

Beatitude in Blue

A POEM

Oliver Barres

Herring Gulls

A POEM

Oliver Barres

Song of God’s Body

A POEM

Oliver Barres

And Are We Still to Know?

A POEM

Katherine Brown

The Bell Ringer

A POEM

T.J. Kelly

Milton on the Monday After Easter Break

A POEM

Linda Peavy

Blood, Water, Wine - Sacrament - Paradox Regained

THREE POEMS

J.R. Hochstedt Jr.

Canticle

A POEM

Katherine Brown

A Stage Exists Someplace

A POEM

James Hunter

Paradoxical in the Extreme

Arthur Livingston

Evidently a man of coarse, even slovenly, personal habits, Au­den was as meticulous as T.S. Eliot in the precision of his verse.

Sonnet III

A POEM

Marjorie Williams

The Night the Sauerkraut Exploded

A POEM

R. Faricy

Compassion

A POEM

Anne Keith

Pietà

A POEM

Sister Claude of Jesus, SNJM

Prayer after Communion

A POEM

Tom Noe

Fragments on the Death of a Muskrat

A POEM

David N. Beauregard, O.M.V.

When Angels Danced

A POEM

D.S. Preston

Old Age

A POEM

Anne Keith

Befuddled

A POEM

Ralph Wright, O.S.B.

Parting Word

A POEM

Gwendolyn C. Carr

Twentieth-Century Adam and Eve

A POEM

Gwendolyn C. Carr

Bones of Contention

A POEM

Br. James M. Deschene

Old Cathedral

A POEM

T.J. Kelly

Enlightenment

A POEM

William Luse

The Chic and the Dead

A POEM

T.J. Kelly

Faith

A POEM

Sam Cuthbert

To Angela, Who Is Afraid of Clowns

A POEM

Evelyn Bence

The Gravity of Our Situation

A POEM

Laurie Hibbet