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Brett Evans lives in New Orleans— once near the bayou, now Lake-adjacent. He hearts pho, ferries, and half-feral beagles. He is a founding member of the tit-Rex parade, vocalist for the band Skin Verb, and author of I Love This American Way of Life and (with Chris Shipman) Keats Is Not The Problem.

Not since the great Metaphysical Poets of the Elizabethan Age has there been such a flowering of creative genius as seen in the verse of just one 20th century poet, T.S. Eliot.

Psalm 88 is a cry of despair that draws those who suffer closer to Christ.

The early seventeenth century was English poetry's golden age for the poetry of meditation, a more specialised and concentrated process than contemplation. Meditation seeks unity with the Godhead, and it is this particular genre which has given us some of the greatest poems in the language.

Faculty and alumni from local colleges such as Bard College and the College of Saint Rose were recognized at the 66th Annual GRAMMY Awards.

Little Gidding was a religious community, founded by a man named Nicholas Ferrar.

I have said and done many things of which I am not proud. That is, I am no golden bird cheeping about human frailties from some high branch of superhuman understanding.

I have said and done many things of which I am not proud. That is, I am no golden bird cheeping about human frailties from some high branch of superhuman understanding.

Luke Lyman on a newly discovered Cézanne, manuscript drafts & Irving Babbitt.

Generalisations about national characteristics are open to question. Nevertheless, the overwhelming impression one gets from reading the major works of English literature, or from studying the famous English men and women of politics, the military or the academic world, is that the English have not been an especially religious lot. Or, if you think that