The Language is Not Hard to Understand
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The language is not hard to understand – not difficult at all – the ground says I will catch you if you – when you…
The poet Jane Hirshfield recently came to my attention. Imagine Mary Oliver with an edge, steel in her veins. I’m most of the way through…
His hand shook as he told the very short story of the angel who came to earth with a torch and pail. I wasn’t going…
This weekend I’m at a seminar hosted by the Center for Action and Contemplation, Richard Rohr’s spiritual think tank in Albuquerque. A stroke, a heart…
“Oh, Mary!” begins at a fever pitch – loud, over the top, brassy – and stays that way. Imagine Mary Todd Lincoln as a frustrated…
I’ll be talking with Bruce Holsinger about his latest novel, Culpability (an Oprah pick) at the Southern Festival of Books on Saturday, October 18th, at…
“Once, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in a gallery of paintings by Peter Paul Rubens, I was asked, ‘What is the most important thing…
A grocery chain in Iceland – Bónus Supermarkets – began selling a slim volume of poetry at its counters on eternal “special offer” several decades…
If you live in Nashville, you’ve likely heard of Room in the Inn. Charles Strobel, a Catholic priest, began sheltering the homeless in his own…