Photo by Scott Huck Julie L. Moore, the Featured Poet for Issue #1 of The Basilica Review, answers a few questions about her beginnings as a poet, who she's reading, and more.How did you get started writing poetry?I’ve been writing ...   read more >>

After the Mary Oliver Reading at Belmont Heights Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee Mary Oliver reading at Belmont Heights Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee, on September 17 On Wednesday night, a friend of mine broke the news: &...   read more >>

Recently, I had the opportunity to see the film Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. The film is an adaptation based loosely off two separate books, one being Julia Child's posthumous memoir, My Life in France (2005) an...   read more >>

After finishing my M.F.A. thesis and an accelerated course on Joyce’s Ulysses (we read it in a week), I looked for some new intellectual stimulation to fill the void. What could possibly fill my head better than my university’s ...   read more >>

At The Basilica Review, we believe in a free exchange of ideas and, since we plan to make every issue a free download for anyone who cares to read it, a free exchange of poetry. We also believe that we would be remiss in limiting the goals ...   read more >>