April Annunciations Are the Best Tom Hoopes April 10, 2018My favorite month, my favorite feast, and my favorite poem …
Mother Goose and Me Tom Hoopes February 27, 2018I remember being in awe of The Real Mother Goose as a child.
Robert Louis Stevenson and the Poetry of Childhood Tom Hoopes November 21, 2017Garden of Verses it captures childhood experience without short-changing or sentimentalizing it.
Recent Popes’ Favorite Poets Stephen Mirarchi July 17, 2017Popes from Pius XII to Francis have quoted some little-known greats.
Room 707: The Last Time I Saw My Father Edward Mulholland June 15, 2017In advance of Father’s Day, a poem.
Greatest Poet Ever? 12 St. Ephrem Quotes Stephen Mirarchi June 13, 2017St. Ephrem the Syrian was a master poet, such that the beauty and skill of his Syriac verse is still studied in academic circles.