Dappled Things Magazine

14/01/2025

Our friends at the Colosseum Institute, UST MFA, and Franciscan U. Press have a new journal of Arts and Letters: The Colosseum. This is something to look forward to.
https://www.colosseuminstitute.com/the-colosseum.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawHzmN1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHcmRLWjVBZaXMqLs5aCDf824p4ImifSydt8Cu36JzM9n3id_IniLQwBohg_aem_Tx4FK35Cx0W2MQrTnFPpvQ

The Colosseum Institute

14/01/2025

Eric Cyr discusses the Catholic imagination in secular songwriting.

10/01/2025

Friday Links A Deep Dive Into Contemporary Catholic Poetry with Ryan Wilson; The Lough Derg Podcast with Lanta Davis; Jeffrey Reimer: Images of the Invisible God; Jon Sweeney on Catechist Nicholas Black Elk in the Aftermath of the European Invasion; Thomist Poets Reading Series with Paige Parker; S. P. Cooper on King Arthur’s Youth: Growing Up in the Once and Future King

A Deep Dive Into Contemporary Catholic Poetry with Ryan Wilson; The Lough Derg Podcast with Lanta Davis; Jeffrey Reimer: Images of the Invisible God; Jon Sweeney on Catechist Nicholas Black Elk in the Aftermath of the European Invasion; Thomist Poets Reading Series with Paige Parker; S. P. Cooper on

09/01/2025

Our archives are filled with treasures like this one: Epiphany: Cicada by Kristin Zimet. Why not take a look?

Madness, to pull against the warm, the constant earth pressed close, pebbles and clay stroking your sides. I was not done following the good down-growing Tree, the mother sap, tasting her slow pulse, seasons of want and fullness in their turns since time began. Unnatural, against all faith, the lead

08/01/2025

As we leave and approach , I have been meditating on this work from the latest issue of and how many generations and how many people have been welcome in the kingdom of God.

08/01/2025

Fundraising update! A big thanks to Thomas Best, Andrew Sheaff, Gary Daynes, Caroline Merrill, Charles Eager, Joe and Joanne Gasiewski, Jennifer Schiavo, Aaron Lemma, Patrick Cook, Mac Horton, Lee Oser, Peter Heasley, and Fr. Damian Ference for their generous gifts. With your help, we've now reached $11,540 out of a $15,000 goal. We're 76% percent of the way there, so we're counting on those of you still in the fence to carry us all the way home. How about starting the year supporting beautiful art that grows out of the heart of the Church? https://www.dappledthings.org/deep-down-things/beauty-will-make-the-world-why-you-should-support-causes-that-arent-urgent-lepmz

07/01/2025

Death Comes for the Archbishop reveals that sometimes friends have to be apart. Friendship is an oasis on the journey and sometimes moving on is the only way out of the desert.

03/01/2025

Friday Links Uncommon Grace: The Life of Flannery O’Connor; James Matthew Wilson on “Most of the Prodigies…”; Ni**od Journal Writing Contest; The Mystery of Consciousness: Dr. Iain McGilchrist’s Keynote at Kinross House; Patrick Kurp on the Underappreciated Jane Greer: ‘Be Able to Call It a Poem’

Uncommon Grace: The Life of Flannery O’Connor; James Matthew Wilson on “Most of the Prodigies…”; Ni**od Journal Writing Contest; The Mystery of Consciousness: Dr. Iain McGilchrist’s Keynote at Kinross House; Patrick Kurp on the Underappreciated Jane Greer: ‘Be Able to Call It a Poem’

31/12/2024

There are a few hours left in 2024. Please consider making a donation to Dappled Things and help bring more beauty into being.

We’ll be publishing our twentieth anniversary edition next year, so you would think by now we’d have that nailed down and distilled into a pithy “elevator pitch.” Still, I found myself recently thinking about our mission again, and how it shapes our journal.

31/12/2024

The Purgatorio prepares us for all that is about to come

27/12/2024

Friday Links Andy Fowler: The Best & Worst Movies I Watched in 2024; Anthony Domestico: The Best Books of 2024; Our Lady of Emptiness by Matthew J. Milliner; How to Give a Real Gift by Tara Isabella Burton; Manifesto! A Podcast

Andy Fowler: The Best & Worst Movies I Watched in 2024; Anthony Domestico: The Best Books of 2024; Our Lady of Emptiness by Matthew J. Milliner; How to Give a Real Gift by Tara Isabella Burton; Manifesto! A Podcast

26/12/2024

A huge thanks to Staffan Alsparr, Clark Durant, and Michael and Mary Kenneally for their generous gifts since our last fundraising update. With your help, we have now reached $9,220 out of our $15,000 goal. We're almost 2/3 of the way there, but we still need $5,780 more. Can you help us get there by the end of the year?

We’ll be publishing our twentieth anniversary edition next year, so you would think by now we’d have that nailed down and distilled into a pithy “elevator pitch.” Still, I found myself recently thinking about our mission again, and how it shapes our journal.

24/12/2024

Happy Birthday to Dana Gioia from all of us at Dappled Things. We are so grateful for all you do for Catholic letters.

23/12/2024

Daniel Fitzpatrick makes the case that everyone’s favorite Christmas Elf, Buddy, is a modern-day Dante.

20/12/2024

Friday Links While All the Earth in Darkness Sleeps The Ghosts in the Machine: Spotify’s Plot Against Musicians Out of the Vortex The Big Five Publishers Have Killed Literary Fiction Black Elk's Gift of Healing T.S. Eliot and Abraham Lincoln: Christian Humanists

While All the Earth in Darkness Sleeps; The Ghosts in the Machine: Spotify’s Plot Against Musicians; Out of the Vortex; The Big Five Publishers Have Killed Literary Fiction; Black Elk's Gift of Healing; T.S. Eliot and Abraham Lincoln: Christian Humanists

19/12/2024

Our yearly fundraising campaign is a crucial part of keeping DT going, but unfortunately, we are behind schedule to raise the $15,000 we need! This one is especially important as we prepare for our 20th anniversary celebration next year. Thank you to those who have given so far, including Arthur Powers, Jeffrey Essmann, Julie Wright, Kathleen Stewart, Christine Somers, Andrew Higgins, Roberta May, Laura Kehoe, Dan Quigley, Michael Kouyoumdjian, Colleen Rudolph, Mark Paalman, Jared and Rhonda Ortiz, Barbara Wanamaker, James Vogel, Anne Marie Scrivener, Kathleen Milligan, Margarita Garcia-Notario, Joseph Wilson, Mary Camille Thomas, Kathryn Cox, and Amy L Cannon-Kulcak, and Anonymous! With your help we have raised $3,195 so far! That means we still have $11,805 to go! Can you help?

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19/12/2024

Advent thoughts from Anne Ridler’s poem: “It is good that Christmas comes at the dark dream of the year / That might wish to sleep ever. / For birth is awaking, birth is effort and pain.”

17/12/2024

Another treasure from our archives:

A Solution for the Advent Curmudgeon