Spiritual Bridges: Across Time and Space
Aqsa Ijaz on Thomas Harrison Bridges, of all kinds, have traditionally represented our desire to know and connect with what’s on the other
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Poetry
The Alchemy of Tuvia Ruebner’s Poetry
Michael Heller on Tuvia Ruebner Tuvia Ruebner is a surviving member of that brilliant generation of Israeli poets, including Yehuda Amichai, Dan Pagis
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When Truth Finds A Home: In The Shelter by Pádraig Ó Tuama
Alexandra Barylski on Pádraig Ó Tuama This is a book about truth. A book about facing the truth of your own life and
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Mushaira: Islam, Poetry, and South Asia
Abdul Manan Bhat on Ali Khan Mahmudabad Poetry gatherings have a magic of nearness, an immediacy and intimacy of sorts. The intimacy between
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The Art of Poetry: To Turn Our Grief to Music
Andrew Mossin on Rachel Tzvia Back “Poetry makes nothing happen.” W.H. Auden’s oft-quoted line appears in his 1940 poem, “In Memory of W.B.
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Poetry: Politics, Religion, and Peace. An Interview with Pádraig Ó Tuama, Part One
Pádraig Ó Tuama in Conversation with Marginalia’s Editor, Samuel Loncar In the ancient world, rigid divisions between healers, poets, and spiritual leaders did
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Poetry for Grownups: The Responsible Self in Molly Spencer’s If the House
Alexandra Barylski on Molly Spencer Well-deserved winner of the Brittingham Prize selected by Carl Phillips, If the house bears the mark of all
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Songs of a Sufi Martyr: Poetry and Heresy in Al-Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj
Nathaniel A. Miller on Al-Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj Al-Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj is as well-known for his unorthodox statements and execution as he is for his poetry.
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Rhina Espaillat and the Lyre of Orpheus
Alfred Nicol Reviews Rhina P. Espaillat The power of even the best poets begins to flag as they reach their eighth and ninth
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Christian Wiman Illuminated
Scott Casleton Reviews Christian Wiman’s He Held Radical Light The poet possesses the power of transfiguration. Like Phalaris’ bronze bull transforming the cries of
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