Articles of Note
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Featured Artist: Christopher Santer
Feeling intensely uprooted at a young age made me realize that to keep a coherent sense of self I was going to have to take root in something other than a cultural or linguistic identity. This is of course no finished project but something I am continually engaged in, including in my creative practice. I think primarily in terms of creating worlds.
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“Our Diminished Stonehenges”
⎺Original Poetry from Graham Pardun
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Wild Belief: Poets and Prophets in the Wilderness (Book Recommendation)
Wild Belief serves as a literary pilgrimage through the lives of poets and prophets who have allowed the wilderness to transform their lives and their work — who have found the wilderness to be “a locus for renewal,” both spiritually and literarily.
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Walking Towards Munich, Sailing Past Manhattan
Imagine two geological maps of your zip code, one made a thousand years ago and one made today. Chances are they would be nearly identical. Now imagine two road maps of the same area, one from 1965 and one from today. Could you find your way around? Probably. Finally, imagine two maps of your zip code, charting house color, one from 1987 and one from today. Would you recognize your own street?
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“Benediction for a Naturalist”
⎺Original Poetry from Anne Sophie Olson
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The Shame and the Glory
Rejoice that you have a body. It may be prone to illness, easily tempted, heavy and awkward in social situations, and marked with wounds and pain. But so is our Lord's. And we will yet rise with him, naked to reveal every scar, our shame now remade into glory.
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Bob Dylan at 80: The Ship Never Came In … And That’s OK
On October 26th, 1963, Bob Dylan performed “The Times, They Are A-Changin’” for the first time in New York’s Carnegie Hall. “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” and “Blowin’ in the Wind” were also in the set. And he closed with “When the Ship Comes In,” a song he had performed with Joan Baez only a few months earlier at the March on Washington, where Martin Luther King, Jr. would later deliver his “I Have a Dream” speech. Something was happening and Dylan was right in the midst of it.
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Two Sets of Trans-Atlantic Discoveries
Recent articles of note from around the world wide web.
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“h8Q# A Pawn Dreams of Promotion”
⎺Original Poetry from Dietrich Balsbaugh
