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Winners of the Inaugural First Things Poetry Prize
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the inaugural First Things Poetry Prize is Josiah A. R. Cox for his poem “Two Owls.” Amit Majmudar, one of...
Introducing the First Things Poetry Prize
Perhaps you have heard: First Things has started a poetry prize. You can read about the submission requirements here. We will select two winning poems for publication and award...
Fight with Style
Bear the standard for religious orthodoxy with First Things. Make your contribution to our 2023 spring campaign today at firstthings.com/donate. In a 1991 First Things article on pop culture, Richard John Neuhaus...
The Integrity of Poetry
Last year marked the thirtieth anniversary of Dana Gioia’s Can Poetry Matter?, a follow-up to his famous 1991 article in The Atlantic. The article and book caused quite a...
Old Possum Ain’t Dead
Eliot After ‘The Waste Land’by robert crawfordfarrar, straus and giroux, 624 pages, $40 When T. S. Eliot gave a lecture on “The Frontiers of Criticism” on April 30, 1956,...
Why Read Literature?
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Both an Original and a Man of His Time
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An Odd Report on the Humanities
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Kindle Highlighting and the American Mind
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Great Lines: “oh Lana Turner we love you get up”
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Great Lines: “She sang beyond the genius of the sea”
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Great Lines: “Where are the snows of yesteryear?”
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Great Lines: “April is the cruellest month”
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The Morality of Modern Cycling
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Confessions of a Protestant Christmas Tree Amateur
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