Peter Augustine Lawler, RIP

Peter Augustine Lawler, RIP

by | May 28, 2017

Peter Lawler was not a Southern Gentleman. But he was a southerner and he was, in every important respect, a gentleman. Kind, courteous, and insistent that public discourse and private interactions both be conducted with decency and civility, he earned many friends in...

Wilmer Mills: The Poet as Maker

by | May 28, 2017

An introduction to and appreciation of the work of the modern agrarian poet Wilmer Mills (1968–2011). By Steven Knepper B. H. Fairchild says it is good for poets to “come from people who make things.” Poets from a crafting background have rich subject matter for...

Lecture on Kirk’s Fiction

by | May 22, 2017

In April the Kirk Center hosted Jeffrey Dennis Pearce, a history teacher and the creator and editor of Ghostly Kirk, a web page dedicated to the ghostly fiction of Russell Kirk. Pearce gave a lecture on “Virtue in Two Ghostly Tales of Russell Kirk,” which was later...

‘It Was the End of Solo Singing’

by | May 22, 2017

The Cypresses Believe in God by José María Gironella. Ignatius, [1953] 2005. Paper, 900 pages.When Eric Hobsbawm suggested that the period 1914–1991 could be called “the short twentieth century,” he not only defined an era but separated it from our own. Few conflicts...

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Wallace Stevens

by | May 22, 2017

The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens by Paul Mariani Simon & Schuster, 2016. Hardcover, 483 pages, $30. When Wallace Stevens was seventy-two, he received the Robert Frost Gold Medal from the Poetry Society of America. In his remarks, he gave an ethical...