Much of Mark Wunderlich’s decidedly sincere and dexterous new book The Earth Avails derives, as well as extrapolates from a little leather volume of common prayers, a treasury of highly particular, ...

The organizers of a proposed monument for Reconciliation Park believe they’ve found a replacement for a controversial poem that led the City Council to withhold its permission to place it on public ...

I've been thinking lately about what is only able to be said through poetry. How a poem can transform a moment into a feeling and make a memory come to life. Poetry has an incantatory effect; I read a ...

A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior world, from the New York Times bestselling author of This Here Flesh and creator of Black Liturgies "A true ...

We know the Scottish writer George MacDonald (1824–1905) as the author of realistic novels, as well as fairy tales and other works of fantasy: “Sir Gibbie,” “At the Back of the North Wind,” “The Light ...

Badger Clark (1883–1957) is the most important link between the Cowboy Poets who had actually experienced the old West and the later, more nostalgic poets of the first half of the twentieth century, ...

ATHENS, Ga. – A high school principal apologized Monday for reading a poem called "The New School Prayer" over the school's intercom, which brought complaints from some parents who said it violated ...

In her introduction to “A Hidden Light,” Susannah Heschel notes that Hasidism offers “teachings, texts, and stories… as guides” to the inner journey of transformation. This book, by Rabbi Zalman ...

ROLAND FLINT, Maryland’s poet laureate, calls poetry the clearest evidence we have of the hungers of the soul. Poems are not things we can eat, drink, scratch or make love to,” he said. “Poems satisfy ...