An exploration of the mysterious process of working with words.
When we escape the noise long enough to hear the still, small voice, the journey of life takes on amazing new meaning.
The temporarily defunct gallery needs some attention.
A review of Wendell Berry's Given: New Poems.
The exquisitely melancholy love songs of Leonard Cohen.
Some tragedies are too big to comprehend.
An exploration of the nature and meaning of “good things”.
Short reviews of The Lives of Others, Laura Veirs’ Year of Meteors and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.
A talk and slide show from the author's recent photography exhibit.
The nature poetry of Liberty Hyde Bailey and the igniting of an urban imagination.
On trying to live out a costly vision after college.
Announcing a 2011 commitment to create a poem an issue.
A reflection on the direction of the world, with reference to poets.
A vision for redesigning college as education for whole people.
A review of the album Desiderium from the folk trio Kindlewood.
Short reviews of C.S. Lewis, Chesterton, Wodehouse and more.
Life lessons from a friend newly retired.
On the perfectly impractical art of writing poetry.
Can a poem change the world?