19Dec

Advent Gratitude

December 19, 2025 The Cornerstone Forum

The Incarnational Road Advent this year comes with both a note of concern for our friend and president, Gil Bailie,...

06Dec

Louis Simpson

December 6, 2022 Gil Bailie

For years I have quoted this poem by Louis Simpson, a gifted poet and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for...

17Jun

June 17, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

Poems from a Diary 1974 Who will last? And what? The wind will stay, and the blind man's blindness when...

24Mar

March 24, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

We recently announced our offering of Gil Bailie’s two-part series Reflections on the Poetry of W. H. Auden. The New...

22Mar

March 22, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

We have added an new item to our catalog of recorded presentations from Gil Bailie’s audio archives – Reflections on...

30Apr

April 30, 2020 Gil Bailie

This lovely Richard Wilbur poem gives up new secrets every time I come back to it. Two Voices in a...

08Jul

July 8, 2019 Randy Coleman-Riese

the village of Ein Karem During my visit to Israel, ahead of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion conference in...

17Nov

November 17, 2018 Randy Coleman-Riese

The ‘Fall Appeal’, which you may read by following the link, is our annual foray into fundraising and was once...

10May

May 10, 2018 Gil Bailie

If the myth’s outworn, the legend broken, Useless even within the child’s story Since he sees well they now bring...