The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University

The Merton Annual - Volume 18

  • Victor A. Kramer. "Introduction: Monastic Awareness, Liturgy and Art: The Benedictine Tradition in Relation to Merton's Growing Artistic Interests." 7-10.

  • Thomas Merton. "'Three Prayers' Written for Frank Kacmarcik." 11-14.

  • Thomas Merton. "'The Monk and Sacred Art' (1956); and 'Art and Worship' (1959)." Edited by Glenn Crider and Victor A. Kramer. 14-21.

  • Kevin Seasoltz. "Frank Kacmarcik and the Cistercian Architectural Tradition." 22-32.

  • Charlotte Anne Zalot. "A Merton Connection: Frank Kacmarcik, OblSB, Monk and Artist. (1920-2004)." 33-58.

  • Eric Hollas, Daniel Durken and Stefanie Weisgram. "Three Comments about Benedictine Monastic Community Reading." 59-64.

  • Ernesto Cardenal. "Remarks Following a 2004 Poetry Reading." Transcribed and Edited by Dennis Beach with an Introduction by Patrick Hart and a Note by Corey Shouse.65-71.

  • Anthony Feuerstein. "A Discovery: Thomas Merton's Poetry As Art Song; Compositions by Bryan Beaumont Hays, OSB: A Bibliographical Note." 72-76.

  • Methodius Telnack. "'Unadorned Ideal': An Interview in Two Parts with Methodius Telnack." Conducted Victor A. Kramer and Glenn Crider by  77-95.

  • Dewey Weiss Kramer. "Contemporary Architectural Witness to the Lived Cistercian Ideal: The Abbey Churches of Gethsemani and Conyers." 96-108.

  • Michael Griffith. "Thomas Merton on William Blake: 'To Look Through Matter Into Eternity'." 109-126.

  • Jeffrey A Cooper. "Divining the Inscaped-Landscape: Hopkins, Merton and the Ascent to the True Self." 127-139.

  • Malgorzata Poks. "Encounter in a Secret Country: Thomas Merton and Jorge Carrera Andrade."  140-166.

  • Marilyn Sunderman. "Jewels Upon His Forehead: Spiritual Vision in the Poetry and Photography of Thomas Merton." 167-188.

  • Ross Keating. "Wisdom, Sapiential Poetry, and Personalism: Exploring Some of Thomas Merton's Ideas for Values Education." 189-204.

  • Chris Orvin. "The Conflict Not Yet Fully Faced: Thomas Merton as Reader in His Journals." 205-236.

  • Paul M. Pearson. "A Monk With the Spiritual Equipment of an Artist: The Art of Thomas Merton." 237-259.

  • Roger Lipsey. "Do I Want A Small Painting? The Correspondence of Thomas Merton and Ad Reinhardt: An Introduction and Commentary." 260-314.

  • Glenn Crider and Paul M. Pearson. "Art in The Merton Annual, Volumes 1-5." A Bibliographic Note and Compilation. 315-317.

  • Malgorzata Poks. "Reading Merton from the (Polish) Margin: 2004 Bibliographic Survey." 318-348.

  • Victor A. Kramer. Rev. of In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton edited by Lynn R. Szabo. 349-352.

  • Patrick F. O'Connell.  Rev. of A Year With Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations From His Journals. Selected and Edited by Jonathan Montaldo. 352-355.

  • Additional reviews by Christine M. Bochen, Joy A. Schroeder, Dana Greene, Glenn Crider, Angus F. Stuart and William H. Shannon.

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