Great Christian Poems Teach Priceless Lessons About Life I hope to live the life of virtue that great poetry inspires Raffaelo Sorbi, “Dante Meets Beatrice,” 1903 (photo: Public Domain) ...

Poems in honor of a Benedictine life Philip Kolin's longtime spiritual director was a chain-smoking oblate who fed everyone.

Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly ...

Poems for a difficult life of faith Like Paul, Spencer Reece has journeyed to see what he would suffer as a servant of Christ.

Two new books give a multi-hued portrait of Seamus Heaney as he pursued a late-20th-century vocation as a public advocate of poetry and as a somewhat private advocate of Catholicism as a folk culture.

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 ...

Since 1996, the Academy of American Poets has been designating April as National Poetry Month to celebrate “poets’ integral role in our culture” and to remind readers “that poetry matters ...

Poet and author Christian Wiman talks about his cancer diagnosis, confronting death, and how his faith has taught him to embrace the unknown.

In his new anthology, Joy: 100 Poems, the writer Christian Wiman takes readers through the ostensible ordinariness of life and reveals the extraordinary. “We ate, and talked, and went to bed ...

As she explains: Each year since 2016 my assignment has been to create a spiritual newsletter that encourages others to integrate spirituality with everyday life.