JUST AS, AFTER A POINT, JOB CRIED OUT a poem by K.A. Hays from Motionpoems on Vimeo.
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Jim Allman Nominated for 2011 Pushcart Prize
Continuum Fellow, Jim Allman, was recently announced as a Pushcart Nominee by the Los Angeles Review for his poem published in Issue 10, titled “Corpus Delicti”. This is Jim’s second nomination for the prestigious Pushcart.
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The Umbrella by Jennifer Grotz
The clouds grew thick the way gray fur
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The Art of “Sola Scriptura”
“Not a formless sublime exceeding and annihilating the beautiful, but an endless display of beauty, surpassing the beautiful as the ever more beautiful.” – David Bentley Hart
Sola Scriptura permeates the portion of protestant faith I have grown up within. It is a term which tends toward an epistemology that raises the written word above everything else, after all John 1:1 tells us, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” It is powerful, the word—both the spoken word that made everything that was made and the Word through whom life and light was given to “all mankind [as] the light [that] shines in the darkness” that cannot be overcome. But within that same tradition, the word is often eviscerated.
A Review: Tony Gloeggler Greatest Hits 1984 – 2009
Robert Duvall as Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore from the movie, "Apocalypse Now"
Pudding House Publishing*
81 Shadymere Lane, Columbus, OH 43213
www.puddinghouse.com
ISBN 1-58998-825-6
2009, 32 pp., $12.00
Plain and simple, 1969. I knew nothing of Tony Gloeggler except that solitary poem, which I first read on RATTLE’s blog a few months back.** I suppose Greatest Hits was an inevitable first purchase, then; just as knowing nothing of Dave Brubeck when I was 16 obliged me to buy a 2-disc greatest hits of the jazz master. This was before I knew that Darktown Strutter’s Ball was never supposed to follow Take Five, or, even, anything of the magic of the famed Brubeck/Desmond chemistry that I now hold in holy awe. Greatest hits, I believe, are about impatience or ignorance. I don’t mean that in a negative way. I really wanted to buy a Brubeck album that day, thumbing through stacks at the music store but perplexed—Time, Time Out, Time Further Out, Time Way Way Out, Time In, Time Changes—but I left with Dave Brubeck The Legacy Jazz Collection instead, a 28 song compilation of his “mainstays” that can be skipped if you are a longtime collector, but a good introduction, otherwise. Back to Tony Gloeggler Greatest Hits 1984 – 2009.
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And What, Friends, Is Called a Road? by Gabriel Gudding
Alfonse Borysewicz - Your Own Soul
And what, friends, is called a road? If there is, friends, an island, akin to a river, resembling a fence, used in the purpose of swiftly moving bodies and goods, a hallway lined in names, an aisle through counties, a duct in webs, a gangway to seeds, a traveling of beings, a river composed of islands, a place of simultaneous attraction and repulsion, a place for the finding of place, an area of exchange like unto an immense abacus. This, friends, is called a road. Continue reading “And What, Friends, Is Called a Road? by Gabriel Gudding” »
Apologia by Jill Alexander Essbaum
Ken Weathersby - Inset Canvas
However innocent your life may have been, no Christian ought to venture to die in any other state than that of penitent.
—St. Augustine
21 by Derek Walcott
Hieronymus Bosch - Garden of Earthly Delights
May my enemy be assuaged by these waves
because they are beautiful even to his evil,
may the drizzle be a benediction to his heart
even as it is to mine; they say here that the devil
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