Poetry StrivingWhen the kitchen table becomes a confessional and the combat with demons in the heart hears conversation turn toward tired…Nathaniel SchmidtSeptember 1, 2018
Poetry The Active VoiceAfter Camille Pissarro’s Haymaking at Éragny Pissarro clumped, sculpted, plowed his oil paints to produce this hayfield: fertile pigments…Nathaniel SchmidtSeptember 1, 2018
Poetry TranscriptionLet us romanticize a monk, hunched-over, candle-lit, a sackcloth habit snuggled close to repel the winds besieging his abbey, medieval,…Nathaniel SchmidtOctober 31, 2015
Poetry ProfessionAfter Job 13:15 “Though He slay me, still will I trust Him,” seems a rhetorical boast, easily made, for who…Nathaniel SchmidtOctober 31, 2015
Poetry RomanticsHe loosens his work-tie’s noose-knot, ascending a staircase climbing above our grey earth, fallen leaves clotting gutters in the car-park…Nathaniel SchmidtOctober 30, 2014
Poetry What Is Man that Thou Art Mindful of HimWhat do we mean when we say children are God’s artistry as preachers are wont to do during baptisms, deleting…Nathaniel SchmidtOctober 30, 2014