Rediscover Poetic Enchantment with Charles TaylorPhilosopher Charles Taylor's sweeping panorama of the longings for the transcendent reflected in the poetry of the past several centuries.
Dec 17, 2013FAITHEllis IslandOne day I will take the boat to Ellis Island. I will walk the pier and enter the station. I will see the stacks of abandoned steamer...
Jul 9, 2013POETRYPresenceLike a white gull, caught in the cross-purpose of an opposing breeze, I hang, suspended upon grief and this searing joy. Weightless,...
May 1, 2013POETRYLines for the First of MayThe choirboys sang at dawn in Oxfordtown, birdnotes chiming from tower’d nest of stone above the mink-brown Cher. I have never heard...
Oct 29, 2012BOOKSWendell Berry, “Planting Trees”This week I checked out Wendell Berry’s The Country of Marriage and stumbled on a poem I hadn’t read before. Just a few days ago my kind...