The Way of the Critic: To Judge Is to Love
By Editorial Issue 110
Good criticism also helps us see why some art doesn’t work, or works poorly, activating the worst in us. When criticism is judgmental in the sense of being censorious, that too is in the service of art and our experience. The critic is showing us why we need and deserve better.
Read MorePsalm [On the fifth day the epidural fell from my back]
By Poetry Issue 109
a dream that repeated: to find the good / you must uproot the pain
Read MoreThe Theory of Longing: Two Works at the A.J. Heschel School
By Visual Art Issue 109
I came to see the ark in this space as a kind of well at the heart of an imaginary landscape, the symbolic source of life. This metaphoric landscape is a constant reminder of the longing for the physical Holy Land.
Read MoreCamellias
By Poetry Issue 109
My mother used to tell me to talk without using my hands…. People will think you’re something you’re not, she said.
Read MoreSucculents
By Poetry Issue 109
I want to know the names / of those who make reservoirs / of their own bodies.
Read MoreThe Dark inside You
By Poetry Issue 109
But, if you didn’t notice, there is the cross: / the cross that includes everything as it / excludes nothing
Read MoreThose Beloved Ghosts of Compiano
By Poetry Issue 109
Like you, I’m on a journey, though where I’m going / changes with each moment.
Read MoreElegy
By Poetry Issue 109
A poem for lost love. “If I wash myself / where will you go?”
Read MoreSilvius Bonus, Mentioned in Despatches
By Poetry Issue 109
To think—I thought it cute, / the doctrine that the oak trees sculpt / the air and water
Read MoreAugust
By Poetry Issue 109
May the curious prayer of work keep me / in contact with the stone / / and who knows what else.
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