Carla Galdo
@CarlaGaldoVA
Wife & Mom; Writer of various stripes, @HumanumReview; MTS John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family; MFA in Poetry from @stthomashouston
“Love means to learn to look at yourself / The way one looks at distant things / For you are only one thing among many. / And whoever sees that way heals his heart, / Without knowing it, from various ills…” —Czeslaw Milosz, “The World”
So honored by this bright and careful review of The Locust Years by one of my literary heroes, @SallyThomasNC . Thanks to @Fare_Fwd for publishing it. “One striking hallmark of Pastor’s body of work is that nobody else today seems to be asking his soul where its wisdom is…”
👉🏻 For friends of Jane Greer (@NorthDakotaJane) I have organized a flower fund for Jane so that her Twitter/X friends can express our appreciation for her. This is not affiliated with her family. Any additional funds will be donated to a small literary journal that published her…
This is a true loss. 💔💔May she rest in peace. 🙏
I am very sad to report that the wonderful Catholic poet Jane Greer @NorthDakotaJane has died. Please keep her soul, her family and her husband Jim in your prayers.
“If I said that the monarch butterfly / My daughter raised from larva to adult / Was an enchanting metaphor that crawled / Into our lives, then lofted, winged, out—/ It wouldn’t be quite true…” *It’s that time of year again! The rest of my poem is here: modernagejournal.com/metamorphosis/…
Poetry is great pool reading for folks who still have to pay attention to swimmers… @pauljpastor still savoring your book!
Join us at this poetry reading in Bethesda, MD! May real, live, in-the-flesh friendships and community grow from the soil of this virtual space!
NVR is sponsoring a reading at The Writer's Center in Bethesda at 2:00 on Saturday, July 19. Readings by @claudiagary, @amjuster, Jane Satterfield, and Ned Balbo. There are rumors that @dacooperpoet and @CarlaGaldoVA might be there too. Please join us! Registration link below.
NVR is sponsoring a reading at The Writer's Center in Bethesda at 2:00 on Saturday, July 19. Readings by @claudiagary, @amjuster, Jane Satterfield, and Ned Balbo. There are rumors that @dacooperpoet and @CarlaGaldoVA might be there too. Please join us! Registration link below.
Our fifth annual poetry competition is live! Submissions are due August 31, details at the link in bio.
Little bit of good news, Honorable Mention for Best Essay in the Magazine Category over at the Catholic Media Awards. Thanks @OSV and #matthewkirby for the opportunity; great job in 1st @amywelborn2 :) @JMWSPT, file away for yet another fruitful post-MFA alumni collaboration!
Some Friday Links for the evening crowd: dappledthings.squarespace.com/deep-down-thin… @newversereview @StevenEKnepper @firstthingsmag @tnichollsmith @lclinton_tx @CarlaGaldoVA @WisebloodBooks
The tangibility of God’s generosity accompanies me in these small things: liturgy of the hours, a gift from a co-counselor at summer camp 25 yrs ago; book cover, from my husband; Rosary sent by surprise from a Polish friend, cloth case, sewn by my daughter; novena, a stranger.
What a great crowd of poets. I was with you all in spirit!
What a joy it was to hear fellow @stthomashouston alumni poets read from the special @newversereview spring issue on Saturday night! ✨ @StevenEKnepper @lclinton_tx @JMWSPT @dacooperpoet @Zina_GomezLiss @Tupelo_OG @tnichollsmith
Kiernan O'Connor responds to John-Paul Heil's review of @amjuster Gerytades: Is Dappled Things too down on the Catholic writing scene? — Dappled Things dappledthings.squarespace.com/deep-down-thin…
It's NVR's first birthday. Celebrate the June links round-up, featuring @WisebloodBooks @JMWSPT @NimrodJournal @BorisDralyuk @DappledThings1 @Zina_GomezLiss @AODonnellAngela @reh1906 @ae_stallings @JcScharl @thelampmagazine @ubookman @NewOhioReview @alexissearspoet @amjuster
This might have just made my month. Thanks for the kind words on my poem, @ae_stallings!
A charming riff on the Odyssey: