Neumatikos

In contrast to yesterday’s post, the 2006 New Attitude conference was very good. Especially beneficial has been the breakout sessions. Dave Harvey’s session on The Summons was very good. I found this poem he recited about an hour into the talk to be very… moving.

When God wants to drill a man And thrill [...]

This poem isn’t really finished, but it’s at least round the first bend, and since somehow I’ve already managed to post it once by accident, I’ll let you read what’s there while I work on the rest.

I have been reading Dante, so Forgive me, if you may, The way that I am strewing all These iams on the [...]

Latina mortua lingua est, Ut mortua potest esse: Necavit omnes Romanos, Atque necat me!

(Latin is a dead language, Dead as it can be: It killed off all the Romans, And now it’s killing me!)

The rumors of my death, unfortunately, have not been so greatly exaggerated as one could have wished. As you may recall, I was offered a [...]

Dan Phillips recently started an accidental firestorm when he took it upon himself to criticize modern poetry. In particular, he criticized the poetry recommended by Karsten Piper. I protest that I was not at the center of the storm – I said to myself, “I will not say anything,” but at last the [...]

I’ve just learned (via Orson Scott Card) that the National Endowment of the Arts is suffering a remarkable renewal. It seems that, since 2001, the head of the NEA has been a businessman and a professional poet who has never been positioned on the authoritarian side of the professor’s podium, a man named Dana [...]

Anthony Esolen, who often makes me wish I had gone to college in Rhode Island, has posted a fascinating poem by George Herbert on Mere Comments. I say fascinating because it is deliciously profound and yet… Well, I can’t read it. It doesn’t “scan,” as they used to say.

I can’t [...]

I’m tired of you, pretty baby, being tied up on a string. Oh get up, little baby, off that light machine. Please change your color, baby: Go back to white from yellow gold. ‘Cause till you pale up, baby, you’re awfully hard to hold.

Little David Ebenezer is six days old today. Tomorrow will make a week. [...]

To write Christian music, particularly worship music, requires two things: A good musician and a good knowledge of scripture. The best Christian music will have the highest levels of both. The trouble, of course, is getting them both together. A good theologian, but a poor musician, will create good theological texts, [...]

Pray you aren not sickly Pray you do not fall Pray your husband loves you For our government will not protect it’s people Not one of them Not one at all.

The front page of your paper is bound to make you sad Especially if you’re the worrying sort So turn the front page over where the news is not so bad There’s consolation in the weather report

It’s a lovely day tomorrow Tomorrow is a lovely day Come and feast your tear dimmed eyes On tomorrow’s clear blue skies

If [...]