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 ...

To English poetry George Herbert made a notable contribution, — he devised the religious love-lyric. This forms his substantial claim to originality. To state, illustrate, and qualify that claim is ...

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 ...

Jonah and Me' is a chance for readers to sit with poet John F Deane as he reflects on an immense career, a life lived in ...

After reading through the exuberant poems in Barbara Crooker’s ninth book, I began to look at the world with different eyes. I found small, seemingly ordinary things to praise and felt myself ...

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.” ...

One of the finest religious poems of the 20th century is “Lenten Illuminations” by Siegfried Sassoon, written shortly after the poet’s reception into the Church in 1957. In the poem, the poet places ...

Kabir was a 15th/16th century devotional poet and social critic from northern India. The songs of Kabir are known and passionately performed far and wide in India today. Beloved for his rough rhetoric ...

It has not been the fashion in recent years for poets to be tellers of tales. The experimenters with the poetic art have broken words and thoughts into twisted fragments and symbols, often grotesque ...