The #ThomistPoets have survived for a whole year. A year of hearing poetry and fiction, discussions about craft and spending some time each month thinking about literature. Help us celebrate with an anniversary doubleheader reunion. www.christopher-honey.com/event-detail...

I'm always bemused to hear #MAGA faux-intellectuals express shock and horror when the #Pope publicly supports #Catholic social justice teachings based on #Gospels and Revelation.

The next virtual edition of the Thomist Poets Reading Series is happening this Sunday, September 21, at 7 pm EST. This month, I'm pleased to feature the award-winning poet, essayist, and educator, Brian Brodeur. Learn more and RSVP at www.christopher-honey.com/event-detail...

The new #ThomistPoets reading is coming up in a few weeks! On September 21 at 7 pm EST, the poet Brian Brodeur will be reading. Learn a little more (including the super secret google meet link) at www.christopher-honey.com/event-detail...

Sarah Cortez will be talking about poetry and education at the next Thomist Poets event open.substack.com/pub/thomistp...

Andres Serrano Proposes Trump Altar for the Venice Biennale hyperallergic.com/1029722/andr...

I hope you're marking your calendar to hear Sarah Cortez featured at the next #ThomistPoets reading on Sunday, August 17! www.christopher-honey.com/event-detail...

This sacred place holds our national memory. Don’t politicize it. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I’m in there, so please read it!

The first episode of the #ThomistPoets Book Club is now available! We are discussing Von Balthasar's influential book of theological aesthetics, "The Glory of the Lord." youtu.be/a-bVI1BeRVc?...

I feel personally attacked. The answer is always and indubitably, 42.

“Boys, your father wanted me to tell you that you won’t be seeing your Uncle Elon anymore because he is now in a million pieces,” said Susie Wiles theonion.com/weeping...

I'm proud of having launched the #ThomistPoets, a virtual reading series and salon. This month's featured writer is the poet and artist Maura Harrison and takes places this Sunday at 7 pm EST. Learn more about this series and Maura at www.christopher-honey.com/event-list

I am so excited that Matthew Johnson is going to be our featured reader for the #ThomistPoets this Sunday. You can RSVP (and find a link to learn more about Matthew) at www.christopher-honey.com/event-detail...

Pope Leo XIV used his first Sunday address to the faithful to call for peace. “Never again war,” he said to a roar from the crowd in St. Peter’s Square.

The #ThomistPoets started with the circle that emerged out of @stthomashouston's MFA program, but I am so excited that are growing and will soon be featuring our first writer who is not part of that circle - the poet Matthew Johnson. calendar.app.google/nmANdYMcPQRG...

his message essentially boils down to the claim that the lives of autistic children (adults too, but the quote below is about kids) are meaningless, and the rest of society should give up on them. as @novicsara.bsky.social points out, this is exterminatory language.

We had a wonderful crowd and lots of new faces for Sunday's #ThomistPoets reading with Valoree Dowell. Join us next month to hear from the poet Matthew Johnson. May 18 at 7 pm EST. Learn more and RSVP at www.christopher-honey.com/event-detail...

Print Media to Mass Protests: “Please Turn to Page 18” newrepublic.com/article/1936... via @newrepublic.com

I'm very grateful indeed to @sallythomasnc.bsky.social for featuring my poem today at the substack *Poems Ancient and Modern.* poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/todays-poe...

The next #ThomistPoets reading happens on Sunday, April 13 at 7 pm EST! Valoree Dowell will be reading one of her short stories to the delight of her fellow Thomists and you can be one of them - learn more at christopher-honey.com/event-detail... @newversereview.bsky.social @mawsheinwin.bsky.social

It is no small thing for government workers to stage a Bartlebean rebellion. But our democracy may depend on it. And the moral fortitude of government workers depends on our solidarity, and the support of their unions and the few elected officials with any scrap of conscience or courage.

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

Can we rescue liberalism from the undying body of neoliberalism? hedgehogreview.com/issues/after...

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

Circling back on this…

Don't miss the next edition of the Thomist Poets Reading Series! On April 13, Valoree Dowell will be sharing a Lenten short story with us and after, as always, a little time for fellowship and conversation. calendar.app.google/8FNPDK4r28Yj...

Please join the next reading of the Thomist Poets this Sunday and hear what Zina Gomez-Liss has been up to, poetically speaking. www.christopher-honey.com/event-detail...

The next Thomist Poets event is coming up on March 16. Zina Gomez-Liss will be reading from her work, so join us for some great poetry, followed by a little virtual fellowship. www.christopher-honey.com/event-detail...

Nothing dramatic, but I appreciated this critique of "We Have Never Been Woke" www.commonwealmagazine.org/woke-symboli...

Washington now ‘largely aligns’ with Moscow’s vision, Kremlin says www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

"Trump asks Zelenskyy to be less "negative" about Putin" www.salon.com/2025/02/28/h...

Interesting article, but seems like a strange time to be celebrating newrepublic.com/article/1892...

My library is not quite so nice www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

The antidote to totalitarianism, recorded by those who lived through it, is associational life. De-atomization, and the creation of loyalties to other people that can’t be, or simply aren’t, coordinated with a regime. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

The poets of Odesa. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/o...

Netherlands to Repatriate 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria hyperallergic.com/990790/nethe...

the rage I felt reading this as the parent of a disabled 14yo

"Did you really think I would not be angry just because you confessed? Truth, George, is a lovely quality in a youth. But do you know what is even lovelier? The capacity not to hack up your parents’ cherry tree for no goddamn reason."

"Sowers of discord," you will recall--like the ones we're presently enduring--get their own special place in Dante's hell. Here's a poem about one of them out of the past. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53967/...

Measles high infection rate is the reason we have not yet been able to eradicate it. That rate means you need a very high vaccination rate to prevent outbreaks. It is possible, but not with current levels of institutional distrust.

For #BlackHistoryMonth, today I celebrate Paul Laurence Dunbar—one of the first Black poets to gain national recognition. His poems like “We Wear the Mask” and “Sympathy” still resonate deeply. If you haven’t read him, you’re missing out. New poems below. #poetry #blueskypoets #poems

Trump’s global funding freeze leaves anti-terror programs in limbo www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Final reminder about Sunday's #ThomistPoets reading featuring Mike Blackwell (our first fiction writer - he'll be sharing one of his latest short stores). Join us at 7 pm for literature and fellowship. Also, Monday is a holiday, so drink all you want! calendar.app.google/qE9rGwHHdEwe...

Join the #ThomistPoets At 7 pm EST this Sunday to hear Mike Blackwell’s latest short story! Thomist Poets Reading Series Sunday, Feb 16 · 7–8 PM View details & RSVP calendar.app.google/yV6HoDpiffV3...

"Coup Klux Klan" feels like a keeper

I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and- Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...

And once again, I mouth off about somebody else's book of poems. newversereview.substack.com/p/a-review-o...