We were terrified out of silence by the crack of 100 wings lifting suddenly the hitherto slumbering mass.
Read MoreThe actual boats from Lake Windermere
More Contemporary Poets Christians Should Read
Since I can be fairly easily impressed upon to dispense advice regarding cultural matters, I hearty yield to the demands of the populus and offer, from the top of my head and in no particular order, some more poets whose work concerns eternal matters and that I have read with delight.
Read MoreIndecent Proposal
I’ve been translating Ovid’s setting of Jason and Medea on and off for about two years now, when I have time, which is seldom.
Read MoreMusic/ 2019
Not to trumpet my preferences as to who released the “best records of 2018” but to remember what my life was like year by year, and to do that by tracing its soundtrack.
Read MoreThings in the New Now
It wasn’t that nothing mattered, it was just that things didn’t matter
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Lucifer's Homily
Lucifer here has just found out the the world is going to end; not someday, but in the next month or so, and is trying his hand at warning people, knowing, through long experience, that they will do nothing to change their lives.
Read MoreDoing Research with Humanities Undergraduates [uncut version]
I do think that it is clearer in its final form, and I also think clarity is a noble goal, but, when the edits came back I was a bit sad. To give you a sense of what I mean, here is the opening as I originally had it.
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Criticism, Social Media Trolls, and the Communion of Saints
I do this often. Rather than silo-ing my intellectual activity, when I read an interesting bit of theory, be it literary criticism or theology, I think What would taking this seriously look like in a poem? How would I apply this in a classroom?
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Best Tips, Tricks, Life-hacks I've Found
There’s a whole sub-genre of the internet dedicated to productivity and How To Tie Your Shoes Like the Pros!! kind of articles. Much of it is silly and wasteful or pedantic and unrealistic, but every once in a while, I’ll stumble across something, either from a friend, or on the web, or in an old book, and it will make a tangible difference in my workflow or in my life.
Read MorePoem Book 2 Finished
I've been all baited breath waiting to tell you: I've just finished the manuscript for my second book of poems!
Read MoreMusic/ 2018
Not to trumpet my preferences as to who released the “best records of 2018” but to remember what my life was like year by year, and to do that by tracing its soundtrack.
Read MoreHow to Like J.R.R. Tolkien
Today, however, right on my phone, someone appeared who claimed to be “allergic to Tolkien.”
Read MoreIn which I appreciate William Logan’s views on poetry and in which I quibble with W.H. Auden's
I think Auden is wrong when he says attacking bad books is a waste of time.
Read MoreBronte the anti-Austen
Not only can Bronte render an archetypal Austenian “sketch,” she can toss them off at will, can toss them aside thereafter as if inconsequential.
Read MoreMockingbird NYC Takeaways
I flew across the country and met some of the finest folks around, while eating well and learning deeply
Read MoreOrphan Lines
Did I make these up?
Read MoreEarly Computer Memory
I wondered a bit why we stored "the future" in the attic.
Read MoreSkeptics on Percy Shelley's Drowning
When the article is not overly skeptical, which it is most of the time, it is sometimes overly romantic...
Read MoreNaked and Aimless
I had heard, vaguely, that there was a parade, but saw no evidence thereof until I saw a fully nude man riding a bicycle.
Read MoreA Day in the Life
I’ve just finished reading Ruth Goodman’s How to be a Victorian
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