I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...

BEDFORD, Ind. (AP) - Maybe it was the way people look at the person with a terminal illness. The people who mean well, but their expressions turn sad when finding out the young girl before them has ...

When poetry gives voice to those who have no voice—those who are dead, marginalized, or ignored—it helps resurrect lives from oblivion. Such poems are called “poems of witness.” Molly McCully Brown’s ...

Charles Wright makes a compelling argument for the spiritual discipline of just hanging around. In a 1992 interview, Wright described his poetic subject as “language, landscape, and the idea of God.” ...

Poet and professor of divinity Christian Wiman says that there are all kinds of poems he’s turned to during this pandemic. He especially enjoys poems that are joyful and have helped him perceive the ...

The students glisten with youth. Every one of them is beautiful. The world has yet to enter them and breathe away their souls. I want to be like the children, but I am dirt and clay. I woke one day ...

and blessed are those who listen to this prophetic message and heed what is written in it, for the appointed time is near.” “Praise Song for the Day” is a poem written by Elizabeth Alexander and ...