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) ...

Philip Kolin’s eighth collection of poems is arguably his best. Reso­nating with a deep spiritual beauty that comforts, the poems reveal not only the world of the Benedictines but also an ...

Poems for a difficult life of faith. Like Paul, Spencer Reece has journeyed to see what he would suffer as a servant of Christ. ... For the Christian reader, Reece’s poems trail with verses from 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 ...

Christian Wiman: I have found it a relief to not be talking about God and found it helpful to take that word out of circulation for a bit. I almost feel like it would be helpful for us as a culture if ...

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 ...

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.

A devout Christian, Wiman views his faith and his reignited relationship to God as an active practice. “The way I experience God is in relationship, in activity, in making art, in relating with people ...

Note: Every Sunday or Monday, the words of Gerry Tucker pop into my inbox. It's a short message followed by one of her spiritual poems. It's the perfect uplift to start a week. As she explains ...