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Poetry

What Is the Purpose of Poetry?

A CONVERSATION WITH CAITLIN SMITH GILSON

Cicero Bruce

April 2024

Poetry was once understood to be an anthropological episteme, a way of knowing, if only through a glass darkly.

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A Poet under the Mercy

James E. Person Jr

November 1989

Many of Vanauken’s poems are reminiscent of Browning, Donne, the early Charles Williams, and others, in style, tone, and theme.

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Respect (Rev. 3:20)

A POEM

Lorraine Bochler Eshleman

November 1986

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Four

A POEM

L.M. Williams

September 1986

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Sonnet for C.B.

A POEM

Thomas Fleming

September 1986

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Praise

A POEM

Lorraine Bochler Eshleman

July August 1986

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Solomon Serves

A POEM

“Julian Norwich”

June 1986

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The Prodigal Father and His Child

A POEM

“Julian Norwich”

June 1986

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William Carlos Williams: A Doctor’s Faith, a Poet’s Faith

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

June 1986

Williams knew how bored, self-centered, and self-indulgent the rich can be, and how desperately confused, vulnerable, and self-lacerating the poor often are.

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The Soaring Birds of Freedom

A POEM

David Mitros

May 1986

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Sonnet

A POEM

“Julian Norwich”

May 1986

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John XXIII

A POEM

“Julian Norwich”

May 1986

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The Final Match

A POEM

Lorraine Bochler Eshleman

April 1986

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Thaws

A POEM

Susan Bergman

March 1986

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Who Taught You?

A POEM

Lorraine Bochler Eshleman

March 1986

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“Trilogy”

A POEM

Timothy Trainor

January-February 1986

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Epithalamion

A POEM

William Dunn

October 1985

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RHYTHM

A POEM

Susan Heyboer-O’Keefe

September 1985

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La Belle Dame Sans Merci

A POEM

Thomas Fleming

July-August 1985

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Processional (upon seeing Dürer’s woodcut of Roswitha)

A POEM

David W. Landrum

June 1985

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The Hill Country

A POEM

Ed Ingebretsen

June 1985

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Lines Written in the Dominican College Library

A POEM

Marianne Bluger

May 1985

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Boardwalk Fortune Teller

A POEM

F.P. Grady

May 1985

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Adam’s Second Day (waiting for Eve)

A POEM

Thomas Noe

May 1985

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To Phoebe*

A POEM

Mary Armitage

May 1985

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The Will

A POEM

William Dunn

March 1985

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Envy of the Empty Air

A POEM

Susan Heyboer-O’Keefe

December 1984

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Age of Aquarius

A POEM

R. Dey

December 1984

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The Elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water

A POEM

Jon Glenn

December 1984

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Pain of Late Conversion

A POEM

Dianne Clode

October 1984

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On the Trinity

A POEM

Sallie Odum

September 1984

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Autobiography of a Creature from Deep Heaven

A POEM

E. O’Brien Jr.

September 1984

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The Chain

A POEM

James Jacob Hege

September 1984

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Parting

A POEM

Charles R. Fink

September 1984

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The Hidden Years

A POEM

Pat Marchulones

September 1984

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Possessed

A POEM

Charles R. Fink

September 1984

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An Apostrophe to Wordsworth’s Period

A POEM

Laurie Hibbett

July-August 1984

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Failed Species?

A POEM

Ralph Wright, O.S.B.

July-August 1984

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In Memoriam 1685-1750

A POEM

Mark A. Noll

June 1984

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Turning

A POEM

Annis Cox

June 1984

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Beatitude in Blue

A POEM

Oliver Barres

June 1984

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Herring Gulls

A POEM

Oliver Barres

May 1984

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Song of God’s Body

A POEM

Oliver Barres

May 1984

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And Are We Still to Know?

A POEM

Katherine Brown

April 1984

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The Bell Ringer

A POEM

T.J. Kelly

April 1984

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Milton on the Monday After Easter Break

A POEM

Linda Peavy

April 1984

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Blood, Water, Wine - Sacrament - Paradox Regained

THREE POEMS

J.R. Hochstedt Jr.

January-February 1984

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Canticle

A POEM

Katherine Brown

January-February 1984

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A Stage Exists Someplace

A POEM

James Hunter

January-February 1984

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Paradoxical in the Extreme

Arthur Livingston

December 1983

Evidently a man of coarse, even slovenly, personal habits, Au­den was as meticulous as T.S. Eliot in the precision of his verse.

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Sonnet III

A POEM

Marjorie Williams

December 1983

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The Night the Sauerkraut Exploded

A POEM

R. Faricy

December 1983

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Compassion

A POEM

Anne Keith

November 1983

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Pietà

A POEM

Sister Claude of Jesus, SNJM

November 1983

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Prayer after Communion

A POEM

Tom Noe

November 1983

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Fragments on the Death of a Muskrat

A POEM

David N. Beauregard, O.M.V.

November 1983

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When Angels Danced

A POEM

D.S. Preston

November 1983

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Old Age

A POEM

Anne Keith

November 1983

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Befuddled

A POEM

Ralph Wright, O.S.B.

November 1983

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Parting Word

A POEM

Gwendolyn C. Carr

November 1983

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Twentieth-Century Adam and Eve

A POEM

Gwendolyn C. Carr

November 1983

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Bones of Contention

A POEM

Br. James M. Deschene

November 1983

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Old Cathedral

A POEM

T.J. Kelly

October 1983

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Enlightenment

A POEM

William Luse

October 1983

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The Chic and the Dead

A POEM

T.J. Kelly

September 1983

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Faith

A POEM

Sam Cuthbert

September 1983

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To Angela, Who Is Afraid of Clowns

A POEM

Evelyn Bence

September 1983

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The Gravity of Our Situation

A POEM

Laurie Hibbet

September 1983

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