Anthony Domesticois chair of the English and Global Literatures Department at Purchase College, and a frequent contributor to Commonweal. His book Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period is available from Johns Hopkins University Press.
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The selves that constitute the poet Lawrence Joseph are particularly numerous and peculiarly unlikely: he’s a Catholic, a leftist, an Arab-American, and a lawyer.
Poet and novelist Fanny Howe is an experimental writer’s experimental writer, the author of dozens of books, one who remains publicly, committedly Catholic.