Mateusz Stróżyński on Owen Barfield, whose philosophy and poetry are “indispensable… for those who want to go beyond the present spiritual and cultural crisis.”

Like many of her contemporaries, Marianne Moore became fascinated by all things Chinese as a young adult and sought to incorporate Chinese imagery, ideals, and philosophy into her own work.

Xiamara Hohman on Mei Lanfang’s effect on Marianne Moore

[Frost’s] theories of “sentence sounds” and “sound-posture” insisted that tone and spoken vocal inflection­–how words sound when we say them–should be the material of poetry, a poetic paradigm which was perfectly suited to performance.

Isabelle Stuart on the history of modern poetry recordings

There have been drastic changes in how poetry sounds to readers over the last hundred and fifty years, troubling the illusion that reading silently can offer us access to the poem as it sounded to the writer.

Isabelle Stuart on the history of modern poetry recordings

An interview with Samuel Hazo, founder of the International Poetry Forum

The absence of poetry from our daily discourse and our public life leaves a total vacuum because there is no substitute for it.

Samuel Hazo on the relevance of poetry for modern life

It is in the world of the incarnate word that we find our true selves, and it is the imagination that takes us there.

Samuel Hazo on the relevance of poetry for modern life

Most of what we do or make, for good or ill, originates in the imagination.

Samuel Hazo on the relevance of poetry for modern life

Barfield’s diagnosis of a deeper alienation from language induces a correspondingly more dramatic remedy.

Jeffrey Hipolito puts two great theorists of human history into conversation

Where are the women in genealogy?

Caroline Wills responds to a recent Modern Theology article by Christine Helmer and Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft

[Poetry is] the closest thing—alongside music and dance and visual art—to a transhistorical technology of human expression and contemplation.

Anthony Shoplik interviews Philip Metres

Can't poetry just be beautiful and sufficient in itself, a refuge?

Anthony Shoplik interviews Philip Metres

What I'm interested in are those discourses [...] which seem to be interested in negotiating with Christianity, but actually want to overcome it on narrative grounds.

A podcast interview with Cyril O’Regan

Petrarch was a founder of an alternative modernity, which emphasizes the compatibility between the ancients and medievals by adhering to the traditional prioritizing of the contemplative over the active.

Michael Krom on spiritual ascents

She found herself alone with God, in her garden, religiously unaffiliated and sacrificially loved... She likely never partook in the Eucharist that she wrote about so lovingly.

Luella D’Amico on Emily Dickinson as precursor to the ‘nones’

Hai Zi was a poet dedicated to an attempt to create a mythology of modernity; a poet as obsessed with the origins of modernity as he was with the challenge of reforging it.

Jake Grefenstette and poetic genealogies of Chinese modernity

This description sounds appropriately meditative, the falling off of body and mind, but it did not bring him to the serenity he was looking for in his haiku, his travels, and his sake.

Amy Heinrich reviews The Life and Zen Haiku Poetry of Santoka Taneda

Tim Barr assembles articles for living during quarantine.