In the latest Weekend Beacon: Meir Soloveichik on The Holocaust: An Unfinished History, Tevi Troy on Character Matters, & Micah Mattix on a newly annotated Hamlet. I kept this post short since brevity is the soul of a good tweet. Ahem. freebeacon.com/arts-culture-o…

"Rappaport’s reading of the play is not new, but it is sorely needed as adaptations of the play have become increasingly bizarre." Micah Mattix reviews Gideon Rappaport's newly annotated Hamlet. #WeekendBeacon freebeacon.com/culture/to-thi…

My The Dispatch essay on Hannah Arendt is featured in today’s Prufrock! Micah Mattix

These beauties have landed - review copies launching soon! Wiseblood Books Sally Thomas

It’s publication day for *Religion and Republic.* I’m grateful for Davenant Institute and Rhys Laverty for the beautiful book. I really appreciate Thomas S. Kidd, Mark David Hall, Daniel Dreisbach, Albert Mohler, and D G Hart for their blurbs, and Kevin DeYoung for his foreword. davenantinstitute.org/religion-repub…

Must-read: Micah Mattix on Ezra Pound (plus other tasty bits): open.substack.com/pub/prufrock/p…

I am excited to introduce New Verse Review: A Journal of Lyric and Narrative Poetry. Sign up for a free subscription. A substantial newsletter, including a review of Jane Clark Scharl's recent collection, is forthcoming. Open to submissions on July 1: newversereview.substack.com

Good news: firstthings.com/web-exclusives…

First Things has started a poetry prize. We will select two winning poems for publication and award the poets with a cash prize. firstthings.com/web-exclusives…

Perhaps you've heard: First Things has started a poetry prize. Here's why: firstthings.com/web-exclusives…

Poetry is not a first thing either, but it is a thing of great value. It reminds us that a life devoted exclusively to practical concerns is not a good one. | Micah Mattix firstthings.com/web-exclusives…

Public service announcement about the generous no-fee First Things poetry contest judged by Amit Majmudar and Micah Mattix newversereview.com/p/first-things…

Don't miss this terrific piece. hat tip Micah Mattix harpers.org/archive/2024/0… via Harper's Magazine

Here I am on endangered languages open.substack.com/pub/prufrock/p…

My full comments for the winning poems: "Two Owls" - sonically & symbolically the most complex & interesting poem, most rewards rereading. its deliberate conflation of predatory sight & visionary insight is like Ted Hughes but with more structure. firstthings.com/web-exclusives…

Full comment for the runner-up poem: "Gather Ye" - the best-executed sonnet in a field full of sonnets, with great human interest whose image of the buried shears dovetails with a more cosmic or zoomed-out sense of the couple at the heart of the poem's garden Congrats to all!

Thrilled to announce that the winners of the inaugural First Things poetry prize are Josiah Cox and Ryan Wilson: firstthings.com/web-exclusives…

In the latest Weekend Beacon: David J. Garrow on the Fall of Roe, Mike Watson on a populist foreign policy, Micah Mattix on C.S. Lewis in Oxford, and Ian Haworth on Bill Maher's latest book. Check it out! freebeacon.com/arts-culture-o…