The Little Way of Catherine Chandler
In his verse memoir, The Prelude, William Wordsworth wrote: “I began/ My story early, feeling, as I fear, / The weakness of human love for days/ Disowned by memory.” He was anticipating the objection that […]
In his verse memoir, The Prelude, William Wordsworth wrote: “I began/ My story early, feeling, as I fear, / The weakness of human love for days/ Disowned by memory.” He was anticipating the objection that […]
If you’ve been following our so-called Catholic Literary Revival, you’ll have noticed that James Matthew Wilson has had a banner year—a new book, poems in the Hudson Review, and Best American Poetry. He has also […]
Dana Gioia is an internationally recognized poet and critic, and the author of several collections of verse, including Interrogations at Noon (2001), which won the American Book Award, and the widely acclaimed 99 Poems: New & Selected (2016). […]
Before his early death at forty-four, Robert Louis Stevenson confided to one of his best friends from his Samoan hideaway: “Were it not for my health which made it impossible, I could not find it […]
James Matthew Wilson’s intriguing and intricate new collection of poetry begins with an epigraph in which James George Frazer, author of The Golden Bough, suggests that the Jewish festival Purim, with its destruction of an […]
That such poetry, as found in recent collections by Ryan Wilson and Mark Amorose, is being published now should tell us that literary culture is far better […]
Due to some very shallow and presumptuous notions of divine mercy and eternal life, not a few priests fail to encourage the faithful to offer […]
A New England poet of nature, indeed, but something must also be said for Wilbur’s Catholic vision of the poet. […]
CWR’s editor on writing: “Both a joy and a responsibility…it is full of demands and full of graces.” […]
“Do not read a book, ever, just so that you can say clever things about it,” advises the prolific author and translator, “Read books for […]
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