Archive - Divine Echoes

Resurrection Matters

Thoughts on Updike's "Seven Stanzas at Easter"

Apr 20 •

Marybeth Baggett

February 2025

Of Loss and Hope

The power and poignancy of Bishop's "One Art"

Feb 3 •

Marybeth Baggett

December 2024

Verses for the Waiting

"We celebrate the First Advent to whet our appetites for the Second. We long for the next coming." - Max Lucado

Dec 19, 2024 •

Marybeth Baggett

November 2024

Celebrating the Creative Life

“The central question of Higgs’ poems may well be, ‘What does it mean to be human?’ If so, then the versifying itself gestures toward an answer.”

Nov 26, 2024 •

Marybeth Baggett

May 2024

W. H. Auden's Dissident Humanism

“There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach…

May 13, 2024 •

Marybeth Baggett

March 2024

Mary Oliver's Devotion to Wonder

"For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry…

Mar 19, 2024 •

Marybeth Baggett

February 2024

January 2024

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