Showing posts with label Some Tuesday Readings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Some Tuesday Readings. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Some Tuesday Readings


The Seven Crossings – poem by Ulysses Arlen at The Society of Classical Poets. 

Dream – poem by David Whyte.

 

The Divine Beauty of Imperfection – Robert Sirico at The Free press on Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Pied Beauty.”

 

Night City – poem by W.S. Graham at Spitalfields Life (with photographs).

 

The End of the Age of Singing – poem by Niall Campbell at Literary Matters.

 

52 (a poem) and “The Christmas Nobody Wanted” (a short story) – by Glynn Young (that’s me) at Cultivating Oaks Press.

 

“The Christmas Night,” poem by Lucy Laud Montgomery – D.S. Martin at Kingdom Poets.

 

Aspiration – poem by Emily Dickinson at Every Day Poems.

 

“Frost at Midnight,” poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

Flaws – poem by Joshua Thomas at Society of Classical Poets.

 

Photograph by Osman Rana via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Some Christmas Eve Readings – Dec. 24, 2024


A Little Mischief Poem and Best Wishes for the Holidays – Tweetspeak Poetry. 

The Body in Advent – poem by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell at Rabbit Room Poetry.

 

Timeless Magic: How Dickens Created a Christmas Classic – Jason Clark at This Is the Day.

 

“A Visit from St. Nicholas,” poem by Clement Clark Moore – Joseph Bottum at Pomes Ancient and Modern.

 

A Historic Christmas Message from the Moon – Hugh Whechel at the Institute of Faith, Work, & Economics. (Eve)

 

Think You Know the Christmas Story? – Michael Kruger at Canon Fodder.

 

Father Christmas Belongs in Narnia – Aaron Earls at The Wardrobe Door.

 

Advent IV – Andrew Peterson at Rabbit Room Poetry.

 

Things Worth Remembering: Winston Churchill’s Christmas Message to America – Douglas Murray at The Free Press.

 

At Smithfield on Christmas Eve – Spitalfields Life.


I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, Luke 2:14 - Doug Spurling.

 

Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory” (1966)



Painting: St. Joseph Seeks Lodging in Bethlehem, oil on canvas by James Tissot (1836-1902).