poetry

Adam Hughes explores the far side of certainty and what happens when belief begins to dissolve.

I’ve long seen the ascension story as an absurdity. John Donne helps me see it as a revolution.

Poet Diana Woodcock blends Muslim and Christian sensibilities into a devotional reckoning with a wounded planet.

Five new books about astonishing transformations

Her poems weave stories of trauma and survivorship, dancing on the frail and fraying edges of memory and perception.

Frustrated with the limits of journalism, former war correspondent Rick Black turned to haiku.

For me, pastor and poet are the same vocation.

In a striking new translation, Dana Delibovi revives the wit, wisdom, and beauty of Teresa’s poetry.

Theresa Monteiro’s debut poetry collection delivers a cosmic vision that always bursts through the mundane.

Amy Newman’s new collection is less a theodicy and more an apology, a defense of life in the face of imperfection.

Keita has written a stunning collection about growing up in a working-class Black family in 1960s Philadelphia.

A new anthology edited by US poet laureate Ada Limón invites us into the natural world.

Like Paul, Spencer Reece has journeyed to see what he would suffer as a servant of Christ.

Jessica Jacobs breathes new life into ancient voices.

Mosab Abu Toha’s poems are about Gaza. Reading them I saw all people who suffer.

Barbara Crooker’s new poetry collection is a journey through loss that reveals the world’s beauty.

Angela Alaimo O’Donnell writes, in 39 poems, a charmingly backhanded love letter to the Italian poet.

Maybe nothing. Maybe that’s its power.

Before the beloved poet tended words, she tended the earth.

What if we suspend our disbelief, collapse our ironic distance, and allow ourselves to go in?