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I invite you to experience the odyssey, by accompanying me as I discuss each canto. My book, Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Guide For The Spiritual Journey, is published by Angelico Press for the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death on 13th September 2021. For more information see - www.markvernon.com
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During my podcast, I will usually talk about what happens in my real life, interesting affairs that go on each day, and exciting misfortunes that happen to me. Cover art photo provided by rawpixel on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@rawpixel
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The poem is allegorical, with multiple meanings. Each episode will cover a canto at a time, summarizing and interpreting the poem based on dozens of commentaries. Check the website for further reading.
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October 2024 Dante’s Old South Major Jackson is the author of six books of poetry, including Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems (2023) and The Absurd Man (2020). He is also the author of A Beat Beyond: The Selected Prose of Major Jackson . A recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the R…
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“Circles of hell" has become commonplace in language. But what was Dante trying to show us when he wrote the inferno? What has been lost in translation, with this first canticle in Dante’s trilogy now part of a secular culture? Jason Baxter talks about his new translation of the Inferno with Mark Vernon. They discuss what Dante could convey in lang…
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September 2024 Dante’s Old South Holly Haworth's essays appear in The New York Times Magazine, Orion, Oxford American, Sierra, Lapham's Quarterly, Terrain.org, Creative Nonfiction, The Bitter Southerner, and at the On Being radio program blog. They have been listed as notable in The Best American Travel Writing and included in The Best American Sci…
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August 2024 Dante’s Old South Serene Hakim: Serene Hakim is an agent at Ayesha Pande Literary where she has been since 2015. She represents authors in a variety of genres, from MG fantasy to adult literary fiction to contemporary YA. Serene is interested in both YA and adult fiction that has international themes, highlights a variety of cultures, a…
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July 2024 Dante’s Old South Steven Dunn (a.k.a Pothole, cuz he’s deep in these streets) is a Whiting Award winner who was shortlisted for Granta Magazine’s Best of Young American Novelists. He’s the author of three novels: Potted Meat (Tarpaulin Sky, 2016), water & power (Tarpaulin Sky, 2018), and Tannery Bay (FC2/University of Alabama Press, 2024)…
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Rowan Williams and Jesse Armstrong talked at The Idler festival, partly around the idea, caught in the expression, “boring as hell”. But is that right, they asked, when a drama like Succession so clearly appeals to us? The question is fundamental, for an age inclined to regard hell as appealing or intriguing, is one on the way to being lost. Drawin…
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June 2024 Dante’s Old South Marcella Prokop is a Colombian American writer and educator living in the northern Great Plains region of the US. Her work has appeared online or in print in the Brooklyn Review, Ploughshares, The Christian Science Monitor, PANK, and other publications. Blog: marcellaprokop.com TedX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn63z…
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Dante lived through a period of almost total social collapse. Civil war and city-state terror, practiced by the church as much as secular powers, drove him into exile for the last 20 years of his life. For a while, he lost everything. But then, through the trauma, he regained a ground and rediscovered the fullness of life. The Divine Comedy is the …
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May 2024 Dante’s Kristen Arnett is the queer author of With Teeth: A Novel (Riverhead Books, 2021) which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction and the New York Times bestselling debut novel Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 2019). Her next novel, STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE, will be published by Riverhead Books (March 2025). www…
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Send us a text We explore the 1944 song, "In Cerca di Te," by Gian Carlo Testoni and Eros Sciorilli. This song was mentioned in the 1960 masterpiece novel by Carlo Cassola - La Ragazza di Bube' - that explores the violent world in Italy right after World War II, before handguns were banned, and before social reforms were put in place to rescue the …
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April 2024 Dante’s Old South January Gill O’Neil is an associate professor at Salem State University, and the author of Glitter Road (2024), Rewilding (2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), all published by CavanKerry Press. From 2019-2020, she served as the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi, …
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Monde invisible, spiritualité et satanisme moderne, accompagné par Koby le chat Bienvenue à introduction du monde invisible, un podcast qui explore les mystères de l'invisible, les croyances spirituelles et les courants de pensée contemporains. Aujourd'hui, nous nous embarquons dans un voyage fascinant à travers les mondes invisibles du judaïsme et…
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Koby le chat : un récit captivant, suite bientôt ! Podcast : Koby le chat vous embarque dans une aventure pleine de surprises. Un fin inattendue vous attend, et la suite arrive bientôt ! Ne manquez pas ce rendez-vous pour découvrir les secrets de Lermann et Koby. Restez à l'écoute ! #podcast #chat #mystère #suitebientôt --- Send in a voice message:…
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March 2024 Dante’s Old South Chelsey Clammer is the award-winning author of the essay collections Human Heartbeat Detected (Red Hen Press, 2022), Circadian (Red Hen Press, 2017), and BodyHome (Hopewell Publications, 2015). Her work has appeared in Salon, The Rumpus, Brevity, and McSweeney’s, among many others. She teaches online writing classes wit…
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“Operação Papagaio” é o novo Podcast Plus do Observador. É narrado por Miguel Guilherme e a banda sonora original é de Rita Redshoes. Pode ouvir todos os episódios da “Operação Papagaio” na playlist própria do podcast na Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube Music ou outras plataformas de Podcast. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
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February 2024 Dante’s Old South Autumn Nicholas: (she/he/they/them) Autumn Nicholas is a gifted songwriter and performer who has amazed audiences around the country. Autumn is one of Music Forward Foundation's Emerging LGBTQ+ Artists for 2023 and one of Nashville Scene’s Country Music Almanac 2024 Artists to Watch. www.autumnnicholas.com Emily Stra…
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January 2024 Dante’s Old South Stuart Dischell is the author of Good Hope Road (Viking), a National Poetry Series Selection, Evenings & Avenues (Penguin), Dig Safe (Penguin), Backwards Days (Penguin), Standing on Z (Unicorn), Children with Enemies (Chicago), and The Lookout Man (Chicago). His newest work is Andalusian Visions (Unicorn), a book of p…
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December 2023 Dante’s Old South The Boxmasters (JD Andrew and Billy Bob Thornton): As a touring band, The Boxmasters have cultivated a rabid cult fanbase across the United States and Canada. Opening for the likes of ZZ Top, Steve Miller, George Thorogood and Kid Rock, The Boxmasters have proven to win over large audiences. As a headliner, frequent …
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Dante's imagery, particularly in the Paradiso, offers powerful prompts to developing the sense of what it is to be intelligent. He wrote for modern times, he said. And now, as AI becomes more pervasive, he can help us understand how machine learning and human intuitions are very different capacities. This was part of a talk given at the Scientific …
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November 2023 Dante’s Old South Richard Blanco Selected by President Obama as the fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet in U.S. history, Richard Blanco was the youngest, the first Latinx, immigrant, and gay person to serve in that role. In 2023, Blanco was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Biden from the National Endowment for the Huma…
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Depois de meses em fuga, o homem que chocou o país ao desaparecer misteriosamente acaba por ser preso pelo FBI num quarto de hotel nos Estados Unidos, em março de 1993. Vinte anos antes, Pedro Caldeira tinha entrado na Bolsa de Lisboa pela primeira vez. Era uma época de euforia e de enorme crescimento económico, em que a bolsa funcionava como um ca…
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October 2023 Dante’s Old South Lizzie Thomas "Thomas is a storyteller. Her interpretations cut to the heart of the lyric." Marilyn Lester, NYC Jazz Record "She brings an interpretive depth to everything." Nic Jones, Jazz Journal UK Lizzie Thomas is an inventive jazz vocalist known for her sultry vocal stylings and deep interpretations of the lyric.…
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