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A quarterly of ideas, arts, and faith. In partnership with @Collegium_Penn.
Joined November 2011
For the afternoon crowd, with @NadyaWilliams81 @JMWSPT @MischaWillett @WisebloodBooks @shemaiahng and more! https://t.co/1By7QkkcIo
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Breaking Down the Walls of Time; The World Beneath the Couch Cushions; TS Eliot’s 20th-century nightmare; This 1,200-Page Poetry Book Affirms Seamus Heaney’s Towering Genius; The Translated Word; A...
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https://t.co/in4O76zdXB Okay, kids, you've got 10 days to polish up that short story and submit to the Dappled Things J. F. Powers contest!
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Rebecca Moon Ruark reminds us: "Advent is anathema to our American ways" Advent is the great longing — Dappled Things
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Advent thoughts on L’Heureux’s, “Communion”
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Friday Links for the Evening Crowd with @newversereview & more Dappled Things
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November 7, 2025
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Our archives are full of treasures. Check out this gem from Darrell Falconburg on The Way of Beauty in Dante — Dappled Things
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Follow the gaze of Beatrice
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For the afternoon crowd, some Friday Links with @lumasimmsEPPC & more — Dappled Things
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Chaffins: 4 Lessons from Solanus Casey;Climbing The Magic Mountain today Thomas Mann’s novel is an antidote to nihilism; Why I’ve started re-reading novels; Seeing Goodness More Clearly; Luma Simms...
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Why not support @WisebloodBooks, a small independent press doing important work, https://t.co/ehr5jhDVL5 and get a chance at one of these amazing critiques? @JcScharl @pauljpastor @BooksBonfire
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@WisebloodBooks 2025 fundraising is in full swing. With a donation of $500 or more, you (or a friend b/c you can give this as a gift) will get a chance to have @DanaGioiaPoet or @JMWSPT critique your work. This is a tremendous opportunity for any poet or aspiring poet out
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Our good friend and one of our favorite writers, @JcScharl's new verse play (second in her Rabelais trilogy) is out today from @WisebloodBooks! Read more https://t.co/wBb20tNJda and get your copy today!
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Before October is over, be sure to read this poem from Jeffrey Essman - one of the treasures in our archives: https://t.co/kM1lScnb9m
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A garden center Virgin (blue a bit The worse for wear, her halo slightly chipped) Made in her backyard shrine the most of it While from her nose an autumn raindrop dripped. It wasn’t ours. Some...
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Friday Links for the evening crowd with @JMWSPT @newversereview @AODonnellAngela & more — Dappled Things
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Lydwine: Goodbye Home; Margaret of Cortona Repents; Art, Life, and the Sonnet: Angela Alaimo O’Donnell; On Literary Citizenship and the Secret to Small Press Publishing Success; James Matthew Wilson...
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Autumn in New England is another treasure from our archives (though, Autumn in Pennsylvania is pretty spectacular, too)— Dappled Things
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New Englander Angela Beatrice recommends three books for autumn.
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t's Friday and that means some Friday Links. Somehow, this Friday, I am posting early (for me) with @jennfrey @everseradio @ae_stallings @newversereview @coffeephilosoph & more
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A.E. Stallings, Luke Stromberg, and Nicholas Friedman at Head House Books; New Verse Review Halloween Party; Titus Techera on Why Novels Used To Matter, And Still Can; Concerning the Death of...
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The Dappled Things archives are filled with treasures. Here is a gem - an interview with Bernardo and Carlos Eire- “Paradise with a Serpent:” An Interview with Carlos Eire — Dappled Things
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Bernardo Aparicio García and Katy Carl Carlos Eire is now a distinguished history professor at Yale University, but in 1959 he was an eight-year-old boy living in Havana who went by the name of...
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Friday Links on Monday morning, sort of like dinner for breakfast! — Dappled Things
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Ernest Hilbert Reading at Fergie’s; Does God Exist?; A Voice from Deep Space; “The Dream” by Paul J. Pastor; The Fatima Sun Miracle: Much More Than You Wanted To Know; How Muriel Spark became a late...
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The J.F. Powers Short Fiction contest is open! https://t.co/PZ0KONE9ok Why not read our 2020 winning story, "Fire in the Hills" by @SallyThomasNC as inspiration for your entry! https://t.co/I16RaiWjiY
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Sally Thomas Winner, 2020 J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction Really, I have no complaints. I love my husband. Our life is good. Our little house, high up in the Avenues, suits us perfectly: nice...
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You can read more about this and about Jane's marvelous forthcoming verse play, The Death of Rabelais, with a Foreword by Tara Isabella Burton, over at Wiseblood's Substack:
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This special package includes: 1) Line-by-line critique of 3-5 pages of poetry (100 lines total) 2) A 1-3 paragraph “review” synthesizing the strongest and weakest choices I see the poet making 3) Recommended reading list curated to poet’s strengths/weaknesses/interests
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Our friends at @WisebloodBooks are in the midst of their 2025 Fundraiser. @JcScharl has very generously donated a poetry critique to the next donor who contributes $500 to Wiseblood.
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