Substacks recommended by J.Z Schafer

Recommended by J.Z Schafer

Words like stones gathered to describe the gatherer, placed in positions of significance prescribed by ritual. Incidental; integral.

Verdurous Glooms

By J. Tullius

A personal publication devoted to the practice and appreciation of formal poetry.

Silver Door

By Nathan Woods

An Entrance to Poetry through The Digital

The best publication on Substack, hands down

- J.Z Schafer

Shadow/Substance

By Kevin LaTorre

Literary reality in Christ's shadow.

Sonnets and Other Stories

By Caelyn Snyder

Seeking to capture small moments with beautiful words.

The Cormac Jones Journal

By Cormac Jones

A record of thoughts on Beauty, Goodness, and Truth

This is one of the most insightful substacks I've yet come across; be sure to give his article and his website, cormacjones.com, a gander.

- J.Z Schafer

The Druid Stares Back

By Michael Martin

Michael Martin, Ph.D. on Sophiology and everything else.

Sabbath Empire

By Graham Pardun

Essays and poems for spiritual nomads and wanderers, wretched exiles, scavengers, and fugitives of heaven.

Sayings of the Romanian Elders

By Grig Gheorghiu

Sayings, homilies, and conferences of contemporary Romanian Saints and Elders

Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself

By Vesper Stamper

Helping You Recalibrate Toward an Artistic Worldview

Across the Spheres

By Nik Hoffmann

Poems from a Common Rhymer

Who would not wish to travel such a path?

- J.Z Schafer

A Stream of Words

By Olivia Marstall

Essays on the spiritual and the ordinary.

Bad Catechumen

By Sam Downey-Higgins

The Bad Catechumen writes poems when he should be at church.

Sam is a talented poet worth following

- J.Z Schafer

Poetics with Robert Charboneau

Notes Toward a Study of Poetry

olivet poetry.

By ollie burgess

poems for the lovers of strange cathedrals and enchanted forests.

the olive bookshelf

By new story

I want to learn how to read until the music of the words flies past the annotations and into my bones.

Approaching the Archetype

By William Maximos

Hopefully Nous Windex. Attempting to escape the rabbit holes and meet the Person of Truth. ☦️

Benjamin Rozonoyer

Benjamin Rozonoyer grew up in Boston in a family of immigrants from the former Soviet Union. He currently lives with his wife and daughter in Colorado, cultivating poems and taking in local landscapes. He is the author of The Beaver Pond (2024).

West of the Moon

Recommended by J.Z Schafer