Benozzo Gozzoli at the Fahai Temple Murals
By Poetry Issue 115
faith was pageantry
both in Medici Florence and the Ming dynasty,
twenty years and half a planet apart.
Coincidence? Destiny?
English Library, Yali School
By Poetry Issue 113
The ancients,” she says, “thought rivers began in heaven.” / Don’t they? But I’m too amazed to listen. / “We have the same words,” I say. “In our ancient Bible / all the rivers run to the sea. But ours return.
Read MoreSanto Spirito
By Poetry Issue 104
In Leonardo’s
Annunciation,
is there a dove?
I certainly can’t
find one—but
Leonardo is famous
for hiding things,
Three Verses from Hallel:
Out of the Narrow Place
By Essay Issue 96
From the narrow place, I called out to God; He answered me from the wideness of God. I OFFER THIS SOMEWHAT HOMELY, literal translation of Psalm 118, verse 5, because it seems to me—in its beautiful Hebrew, if not this clunky English version—to encapsulate what poetry is (or, at least, what it can be) more…
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