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The Merton Seasonal - Volume 50


The Spring 2025 issue, Vol. 50, No.1 included:

  • Merton, Thomas. "Four poems," edited with commentary by Patrick F. O'Connell. 3-10.
  • Cox, Randy. "Two Poems." [poem] 11-12.
  • Spencer, Thomas. "A Tale of Two Writers: Thomas Merton and Graham Greene." 13-20.
  • Duboué, Juan Pablo. "Four Poems." [poem] 21-26.
  • Horan, Daniel P. "Teaching Thomas Merton's 'Texts of Terror'." 27-35.

The Summer 2025 issue, Vol. 50, No.2 included:

  • Higgins, Michael W. "Franciscus and Fr. Louis: A Modest Smattering of Impressions." 3-7.
  • Kiernan, Jeffrey T. "Merton and the Spirit of Place: Three Poems.” [poems] 8-11.
  • Cunningham, Richard M. "Birds of a Feather: Thomas Merton and Henry David Thoreau." 12-20.
  • Gordon, Bryon. "Three Poems." [poems] 21.
  • Coomes, Liz. "Sharing Merton's Poems." 22-27.

The Fall 2025 issue, Vol. 50, No.3 included:

  • Young, Stephan. "Seven Haiku and a Poem." [poems] 9-10.
  • Odorisio, David. "'We Bump. We Burst into Secrets': Thomas Merton's Sufi Spirituality in California - Making Our 'Yes' to Life." 11-21.
  • Centore, Michael. "Three poems." [poems] 22-23.
  • Gardner, Fiona. "The Journey to the East: Thomas Merton and Hermann Hesse." 24-33.

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