Faith, Fiction, Friends

I first read  The Divine Comedy  by  Dante Alighieri  (1265-1321) in 1977. I read the translation by American poet and translator  John Ciar...

Britain’s poet laureate  Simon Armitage  has long been interested in myth and legend. He’s published retellings of  Sir Gawain and the Green...

In 991, Vikings attacked Anglo-Saxons in eastern Essex, not far from the current city of Chelmsford northeast of London. A large stream conn...

I’ve never said that I’m eagerly awaiting the publication of a new poetry volume or collection. I have said it about a novel by a favorite a...

It begins with a cross word. A father, exasperated by his two young sons, wishes out loud that he had had a daughter instead. What he doesn’...

British poet   James Sale   has a mission. A lifelong poet, he is now turning himself to what is perhaps the most ambitious project of his c...

Calvin Miller’s trilogy The Singer , published in the 1970s, took the basic accounts of the books of the New Testament and turned them ...

Blame it on  Geoffrey of Monmouth (c.1095-c.1155).  About the year 1136, Geoffrey published  The History of the Kings of Britain . ...