Bar Mitzvah
By Poetry Issue 118
I am my parents’ first book.
Read MoreDream of a New Rhythm: A Conversation with Miho Nonaka
By Interview Issue 118
It almost takes a supernatural power to insist on existing, belonging, and mattering as an embodied presence when you are an outsider.
Read MoreMemento Mori
By Poetry Issue 118
let pass another word / of love impossible submerged.
Read MoreThe Stray
By Issue 118
Sunflowers like skinny men with rubberneck looks.
Read MoreThe Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
By Fiction Issue 118
While all this was going on, the Christ above the altar began to come alive.
Read MoreThe Jewish Longing for Wilderness Reveals Itself
By Poetry Issue 118
Two figures, one of them kneeling, / have mastered the washing machine.
Read MoreAbsence and Desire: Kierkegaardian Silence in Hlynur Pálmason’s Godland
By Culture Issue 118
We watch as the cross is carried out of sight. The land is speaking here. It says: Be patient. You do not need this. You cannot tame me with this cross. You cannot replace me. Be still. Listen.
Read MoreIn the Studio
By Visual Art Issue 118
My art practice also ebbs and flows like the liturgical seasons.
Read MoreIn the Studio
By Visual Art Issue 118
I thought about how, as a society, we haven’t understood this lesson of humility and service: we don’t know what it means to wash one another’s feet, just like we haven’t comprehended the meaning of “love thy neighbor.”
Read MoreSaint Blaise of Throats and Wild Things
By Poetry Issue 118
Brutish tongue in both; I’ve caught / myself as a wildness.
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