Archive - As Ever

Reading Du Fu on a Spring Day

there will soon be lilies

Apr 1

February 2025

A sort of love story.

Feb 15

January 2025

Vision Board Edition

Berkeley and prayer, surrealism and dreams, Kandinsky and abstraction, the unlikely craftsmanship of a reborn Notre-Dame, and more.

Jan 4

December 2024

Notes from Retreat

Reflections adapted from a week at Mount Saviour Monastery, Elmira NY

Dec 12, 2024

Incantation of Reason Edition

“Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!” Remembering Frank Auerbach, remembering the Florence of 1504, evaluating the UFO religion, and more.

Dec 2, 2024

October 2024

Thrill of Sunlight Edition

Hopper and the mysteries of Nature. Donna Tartt on art and artifice, Daniel Mitsui on traditionalism, A.E. Stallings on the unexpected word, and more.

Oct 7, 2024

August 2024

Thankful Failure Edition

"To be like a beggar when it comes to writing music: whatever, however, and whenever God gives."

Aug 9, 2024

July 2024

Wild Blueberries Edition

Waugh and Greene the odd couple, McLuhan and Guardini on apocalypse, McCarthy edits whales, Victor Bombert's Weimar Leipzig, living with Didion, and…

Jul 2, 2024

June 2024

Medicine Bird Edition

RIP Munro, RIP Rothenberg, RIP Stella. Anton Janša and the Barberini Bees. Stivers on conversion, Mattix on transgression, Madu on the miraculous…

Jun 1, 2024

May 2024

Explanation is for those who deserve explanation

May 25, 2024

Poetry Prize + Reading

An announcement

May 3, 2024

Darkened Sun Edition

Helen Vendler on poetic structure, Mujmudar on Frost, Hemingway's abandoned Michigan, McLuhan's prayer, news from a revivified Notre Dame, and more.

May 1, 2024

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