Writing

October 2018

October 08, 2018
Amidst the constant stream of bad news these days, we would do well to make...

September 2018

September 27, 2018
For my forty-first birthday, I decided to write a personal rule of life. Turning forty...

July 2018

July 31, 2018
Barbara Brown Taylor is an Episcopal priest, teacher, and author of thirteen books, among them...
July 03, 2018
The sonnet, of course, is the gold standard of form, the first one most people...

June 2018

June 20, 2018
Recently, I was wandering around some of the less travelled corners of Tuscany with a...

January 2018

January 09, 2018
What made me pick up Ralph Ellison’s classic 1952 novel, Invisible Man? Had I ever...

December 2017

December 14, 2017
Last week, one of my favorite authors, William H. Gass, died at ninety-three. He was...

October 2017

October 03, 2017
We’ve all suffered wounds in some way. If not the physical wounds of war or...

September 2017

September 14, 2017
1. I was standing in the kitchen of a rental house in the middle of...

July 2017

July 27, 2017
Still Pilgrim. Just the title of Angela Alaimo O’Donnell’s new poetry collection makes you pause....
July 06, 2017
How do poets and writers choose their book titles? I didn’t have a good answer...
July 05, 2017
When a former MFA professor asked me to come to her class and speak on...

April 2017

April 10, 2017
Here’s your assignment. Choose a poem you’ve written (it could be any piece of writing,...

March 2017

March 28, 2017
“No, you should definitely major in English,” I told our babysitter, a high-school senior from...

December 2016

December 21, 2016
By Paul Anderson Seven months ago, I was teaching writing to high school seniors at...
December 12, 2016
By Mary Kenagy Mitchell This is the time of year when we work on Image’s...

November 2016

November 14, 2016
Do you write with a pen? Do you write with the wind? Do you pray...
November 03, 2016
Tootling around on Twitter, I’ve come upon a delightful community of poets. Their hashtag is...

October 2016

October 19, 2016
What are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man? They are the only...

September 2016

September 08, 2016
The poet and writer Dana Gioia penned an essay for the December 2013 issue of...
September 06, 2016
“Men and women in automobiles stood up to watch him die.” That’s the sentence one...
September 02, 2016
This post is excerpted from Gregory Wolfe’s final commencement address as director of the Seattle...

August 2016

August 05, 2016
In this month of painful national and international news, Tania Runyan’s poem “Onesimus” offers a...

July 2016

July 20, 2016
What is it about words that so moves those of us who are writers? We...
July 14, 2016
I first encountered C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity, then quickly consumed The Screwtape Letters, The...
July 08, 2016
To behold God’s creation and to praise it with language is this poem—and it is...
July 01, 2016
This is a poem to stretch the mind. It begins by stretching our imagination to...

June 2016

June 24, 2016
I have a complicated relationship with the sun, having grown up in southern California and...
June 09, 2016
For William Carlos Williams I work best alone. In an empty house. When I’m ready...
June 01, 2016
I snuck into a chair while a friend was describing how growing up under a...
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