Issue 105 Archives - Image Journal

A Place for All People

By Jenny Shank Culture Issue 105

It’s easy to imagine Day marching alongside those now promoting racial equality, the dignified treatment of immigrants, workers’ rights, pacifism, and income equity.

Curator’s Corner: Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis

By Terrence Dempsey, SJ, and David Brinker Visual Art Issue 105

From the beginning, I wanted to challenge people’s ideas about what religious art could be, to stretch categories and ways of thinking, to show that the artists of our time continue to engage in meaningful dialogue with the great faith traditions—and also that this art is in dialogue with the present moment. It’s unafraid to ask, “Who is my neighbor?”

Dismal

By Ann Shaffer Poetry Issue 105

The black dog in the yard
is darkness visible.

On the Poetic Qualities of Groceries

By Ann Shaffer Poetry Issue 105

In particular, a can of tomato paste
which fits in my hand like a roll of bills.

Sojourners

By Jared Carter Poetry Issue 105

Not angels, but pale travelers
through time, come back
Not to condemn or to reverse
our narrow acts,

But to remind us, by their soft
disclosures, what
Is still to come.

A Shocking December Red

By Joyelle McSweeney Culture Issue 105

I want to go back to Manderley and drag myself up the stairs at midnight. See myself. Pull my baby up through the water from the land of the dead.

Snowscapes from the Sackler Wing, part 5

By Jennifer MacKenzie Poetry Issue 105

In my paradise

there would be a lot of liquids and could I bask
unabashed in the breathing
hammock of myself as a kind of Sweden

for unrequited fleeing.

A Place for All People

By Jenny Shank Culture Issue 105

It’s easy to imagine Day marching alongside those now promoting racial equality, the dignified treatment of immigrants, workers’ rights, pacifism, and income equity.