A Place for All People
By 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.
Read MoreCurator’s Corner: Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis
By 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?”
Read MoreDismal
By Poetry Issue 105
The black dog in the yard
is darkness visible.
On the Poetic Qualities of Groceries
By Poetry Issue 105
In particular, a can of tomato paste
which fits in my hand like a roll of bills.
Sojourners
By 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 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.
Read MoreSnowscapes from the Sackler Wing, part 5
By 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.
Read MoreA Place for All People
By 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.
Read MoreA Nun’s Prayer
By Poetry Issue 105
Letters, Music, Flesh: Calligraphy as Sacred Art Among Christians and Jews
By Visual Art Issue 105
For the calligrapher, words are always flesh.
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