The thisness of what is / Diane Ackerman --
Dante's The Inferno, Canto I: A new translation / Mary Jo Bang --
Fire season / Rick Bass --
The God of the gaps / David Berlinski --
The judgment of memory / Joseph Bottum --
Is Google making us stupid? / Nicholas Carr --
The aging Maria / Judith Ortiz Cofer --
Searching / Billy Collins --
The Dalai Lama spends the night / Christi Cox --
Before the storm / Louise Glück --
The whisper of love / Seamus Heaney --
Vinegar and oil / Jane Hirshfield --
The kingdom of the eternal heaven / Paula Huston --
The return of the 'The snow leopard' / Pico Iyer --
Prince of ascetics : a short story / Charles Johnson --
Chosenness and its enemies / Jon D. Levenson --
Words on the wind / Philip Levine --
Our buried sentiments / Wilfred M. McClay --
Secularizations / Richard John Neuhaus --
The procession / Robert Pinksy --
Scriptorium: The Lindisfarne Gospels / Melissa Range --
The God of the desert / Richard Rodriguez --
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least / Pattiann Rogers --
Contemptus mundi and the love of life / Amanda Shaw --
Ezra Pound in a spring storm / Floyd Skloot --
Why beards? / Meir Soloveichik --
The writer in winter / John Updike --
Ring the bells / Leon Wieseltier --
A measuring worm / Richard Wilbur --
The wanderer / Master Sheng Yen.