J.C. Scharl is a poet and playwright. Her work has appeared on the BBC and in many poetry journals on both sides of the Atlantic. Her verse play, Sonnez Les Matines, opened in New York City in February 2023 and is available through Wiseblood Books.
Posts by J.C. Scharl
July 17, 2024
These days, the world of contemporary American poetry is less one world than many. Never has so much poetry been published; rarely have there been more “camps” or “contingents” that have little to say to each other.
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May 29, 2024
A piece of art, completed, represents a long series of choices, from the first choice that artist made to pay attention to the tugging on the edge of his mind to the final daub of paint, deleted comma, or scrape on stone.
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April 02, 2024
Ambiguity is, in a neat mental onomatopoeia, a difficult word to define. But to begin to understand a piece of art like the film
Freud’s Last Session, define it we must, and religious artists would do well to try to understand the film.
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November 15, 2023
I’ve been rereading Milton’s
Paradise Lost. I am not alone in this; earlier this year, every time I checked Twitter, someone was commenting on
Paradise Lost. There seemed to be a gravitational pull toward Milton’s epic.
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