On Pope Benedict's Address to the Bundestag: Not being a Catholic, I would like to draw the attention of the readers of Arion to a speech about the principles of lawmaking that Pope Benedict XVI delivered to the German Bundestag on September 22,2011. -- Werner Herzog
(Winter 2012 Series 19.3)

Three Poems - "Between the Spinner and the Dead"I dreamed I was a sister of the Fates
and in the thread I held, I held your life;
would I still be your wife in the afterlife?
- Valerie Wohlfeld
(Spring/Summer 2012 Series 20.1)

"Unmodern Observations": It is worth remembering that the Athens that created Socrates also destroyed him.
- Herbert Golder
(Fall 2012 Series 20.2)

"Aeneas":
The childhood of Aeneas is obscure--
no birth certificate; but we can be sure
he was the bastard son of a goddess
one made of sea-foam, seed of Ouranos,
domiciled in Paphos, Cythera, and Olympus
(the Greek one, not the one nearby in Cyprus).
- Alistair Elliot
(Winter 2013 Series 20.3)

"Final Voyage: After Pascoli"
His adored aquamarine for nine days
and nights spurred Odysseus ever
further toward that distant island,
at the surf's brim its garden cavern
laden with vine-leaves dangling grapes.
- Martin W. Bennett
(Spring/Summer 2013 Series 21.1)

"Two Odes" (Pindar):
Immediately upon the conclusion of the latest NBA Finals--a magnificent, pulsating seven-game series between the San Antonio Spurs and the Miami Heat--the search began for the series' meaning.
(Fall 2013 Series 21.2)

Menage; I. Dante: In the painting she's Proserpine.
-(Pindar) David Faldet
(Winter 2014 Series 21.3)

Book of Paper, Book of Stone: An Exploration of Alice Oswald's Memorial: "The one will kill the other."
- Carolin Hahnemann
(Spring/Summer 2014 Series 22.1)

Epitaph for a Drunken Twit: Peace, traveler. (Fall 2014 Series 22.2)