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The Poem of Force

By Nathan Schneider | May 1, 2009

Some time ago, a dear friend shared with me a photocopy of some sections of Simone Weil’s essay The Iliad or The Poem of Force. I remember being haunted by…

Killing the Buddha

Truly It is a Good Friday

By Mary Valle | April 14, 2009

Chemo and pulling ivy are far preferable to incense, stations and kissing the cold feet of Jesus.

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Ash Wednesday Already

By Ashley Makar | February 25, 2009

How’s a girl supposed to go about mourning in a world like this?

Killing the Buddha

the ineffable

By KtBniks | February 10, 2009

H.S. Haid sent us a nice letter that’s worth sharing (note, however, that we’re not quite “brothers”—3/4 of the KtBniks are women these days!): Bless you my brothers, for I…

fire

Avernus*

By Miriam Bird Greenberg | December 21, 2008

Keeping the home fires burning.

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Beyond Nepotism

By KtBniks | October 16, 2007

We rarely publish poetry here at KtB, but this week one of our own (which is to say me, Laurel Snyder, the person typing this) has released a book of…

"And the sea stopped raging..." - From Pennyroyal Caxton Press Edition of the Holy Bible, Barry Moser, Illustrator

Thou Celestial Agency

By Rick Moody | February 6, 2004

A tempest-tossed excerpt from Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible.

Angels

Hold the Fig Leaves

By Paula Elsloo | December 13, 2001

Of grumbling shepherds, forgotten fig leaves and God’s dirty veins.

Jesus Gonna Strip You Naked

Jesus Gonna Strip You Naked

By Jeff Sharlet | November 13, 2000

“I had on the hot pants, I said I wuz for sale! But Jesus wasn’t buyin.”