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What Came in the Mail
From JOB, for Christmas … with a note that perhaps I have an affinity for Eastern Europeans, to which I can say, Yes, I certainly do. I hadn’t read much of M. Codrescu. Know of him...
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Hey, look at that—AP says I’m Trump Country!
See me up there in the upper right-hand corner? As Percy would say, I’m “validated” like the young man who sees his own town in a film or lights up William Holden’s cigarette without acknowledging...
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Thought Experiment in the Making…
How close is Webster Parish to West Feliciana Parish and is there something funny going on – such as wives presenting themselves rearward – in that parish too?
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Uncle Walt Wrote a Novel!
Who knew the multitudinous poet had it in him? Apparently a grad student named Turpin did. And apparently everyone does…now. As noted in the New York Times, Whitman once wrote in 1882, “My serious...
View ArticleThe First Word on Silence . . .
. . . which is to say the novel, Chinmoku, will always belong to Endo. After reading Mark Lickona’s article I had a few questions, so I went back to my well-worn copy of the book and read a couple of...
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I’d Be Happy to Know I Was the Only One Who Missed This…
From FOK Nick Ripatrizone… In related other belated news, the man behind the swiveling heads and green projectile liquids finds out if he was right all along… ADDED: Well, now, this is something...
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Redound thee unto mine own personage…
Dappled Things took the bait… Heh. With apologies to Dino…
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Na Muintir: Three Fragments
After Seumus McManus (The Coming of the Gaels) Let us sing of the coming of the Gaels, Three tribes like three streams, wandering Across the wide...
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Do fetuses dream of unborn sheep?
* An interesting and astute piece on all things “Phildickian” over at Chronicles: But Dick also had a conservative side, represented by his strong (if heterodox) religious devotion, his distrust of...
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Everybody! Everybody! Part Two: Rod Dreher
Good people, when The New Yorker profiles a guy who makes a case for Johnsonville, aka Branch Davidian North, aka JOB’s Driftless Dreamland, shouldn’t we take note and discuss? Dreher is one of the...
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Does Anything Rhyme with “Nobel”?
When I first received this Nobel Prize for Literature, I got to wondering exactly how my songs related to literature. I wanted to reflect on it and see where the connection was. I’m going to try to...
View Articlefrom the Mailbag
RT: “How and what do Catholic authors contribute to your spiritual life?” ME: “I guess if I knew the answer to that question, I may not feel the need to read so much. Not that it’s so much.” ME, upon...
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Mars Hill, J.F. and JOB
“I think what Powers is trying to say is ‘No look, there’s a whole other side: there’s a lot of boring Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock stuff going on in the priesthood.’ And I think that’s what he...
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Is Pope Francis a Heretic?
Hey, I’m just asking a question. Kidding! Actually, it’s Marist priest Fr. James L. Heft, head of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California, who is asking —...
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New from Angelico Press
Friend of Korrektiv Joshua Hren’s book of short stories, This Our Exile, has just been issued by Angelico Press. Also available at Amazon and better bookstores everywhere! And not only that, but his...
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Oser the Proser
If the rumors gritting the air ever settle down into hard ash on the ground and the next Korrektiv Summit is truly in the offing, I wonder if we shouldn’t all read and chew on as a group the Catholic...
View ArticleHello sophomore, my old slump…
So as I dig into Entry Two of Lives of Famous Catholics, I realize that I’m basically re-doing Entry One. A story about a film director (Guillermo Del Toro) pursuing a passion project (At the...
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The Judgment of Paris
The Judgment of Paris Eris: A golden apple has no bruise— Contemptuous of all that shine Around it. Guests, you see the ruse A golden apple has? That shine Which vanity has lusts to choose When...
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4 Million Wonders of the Bronx
“WELL, WELL, WELL. WILL YOU LOOK AT THAT,” SAYS MR. PORTER. “IT LOOKS LIKE BABBSIO WENT AHEAD AND GOT HERSELF A BLOGGY THINGY… GOD BLESS HER HEART!” O’Brien on O. Henry: In 1906, following the...
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Caraway in the News
What the Sky Lacks investigates the similarities and differences of disparate places. Between the cold, flat plains of North Dakota and the foothills and rivers of the inland northwest, these poems...
View ArticleLe sigh.
“By the mid-’80s, at a meeting of the New York Society of Film Critics, [Pauline] Kael leaned over to Richard Schickel and whispered, sadly, ‘It isn’t any fun anymore.’ ‘Why do you say that?’...
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Three Two One Zero
What the Sky Lacks gets launched, March 11, 2019, at The Bartlett Blastoff
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Jessica Hooten Wilson tackles Flannery O’Connor
Dr. Hooten Wilson, leading a rousing reading of The Screwtape Letters The University of Dallas’ Louise Cowan Scholar in Residence Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson, who once dined with the Korrektiv Kollektiv...
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Tulips Sans Chimneys
Mr. Potter’s given us a bold adventurous book with plenty of sharp turns at high speed, with some gestures toward Neruda and Merwin but also “Sk8,” a gr8 skateboarding poem, and sonnets, and brave...
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Cover Art by Tiffany Patterson
Design by Thom Caraway For the book by Mark L. Anderson Soon to be published by Korrektiv Press
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sunrise yin & yang
Coming soon from Korrektiv Press, a two-volume set of poems and pictures chronicling a year of rising with the sun — by Jonathan Potter
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