The Face of a Man
By Poetry Issue 106
Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley on an east Pennsylvania rite of passage.
Read MoreSuch Are the Rituals
By Poetry Issue 103
When I tilt the cup
it drains like a face.
New Year’s Day
By Poetry Issue 103
Suffering, I once believed, was a human privilege,
but in that moment I watched as God
died, as God witnessed.
Jam
By Essay Issue 102
It’s sugar that makes fruit gel. Sugar preserves. Sugar is an everyday miracle. It causes fruit to retain its bright color, until it is brighter than it ever was on the tree. Heat and sugar alchemize to turn a jar of jam into a glowing jewel.
Read MoreLiving Fabric: Letitia Huckaby Talks to History
By Essay Issue 101
In her art, Huckaby is constantly pushing herself to discover those previously unheard voices.
Read MoreStrays
By Poetry Issue 101
My father’s latest stray, half-grown half-husky racing through puddles, won’t last long.
Read MoreA Conversation with Ron Austin
By Interview Issue 93
In the conversation around faith and film, Ron Austin is an elder statesman. He has worked a lifetime in the entertainment industry, and his essays and books, including In a New Light: Spirituality and Media Arts, have influenced generations of filmmakers (much of his writing is also on his website). His seminal essay “The Spiritual…
Read MoreThe Many-Voiced God
By Essay Issue 93
THE FAMILY-ROOM TELEVISION came to us through fire and smoke like in the old miracles. It was the mid-aughts, and my father was working at a building restoration company, which is one way to say he waded through disaster for a living. Fire, smoke, water—the words emblazoned on the side of his car read like…
Read MoreLove Letters
By Essay Issue 93
The Forgotten War MY MOTHER INHERITED her father’s war letters before immigrating to America, and by the time she passed them on to me, after my daughter was born, much of the text was illegible, a language lost to a fragile medium, pencil marks on paper the weight of ash. The disintegration had begun at…
Read MoreEcstatic Dislocation: The Art of Sedrick Huckaby
By Essay Issue 90
IN 2016, SAINT PATRICK’S DAY falls on a Thursday, bringing with it an early weekend. In the aftermath of apocalyptic north-central Texas thunderstorms, a sultry heat settles on the quiet residential street in Fort Worth where artist Sedrick Huckaby is hard at work preparing for his next exhibition. Huckaby is a painter, sculptor, and printmaker…
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