Books In Review: The great and strange John Donne Katherine Rundell’s biography offers something new: she matches the poet’s energy with her own. by Jill Peláez Baumgaertner January 3, 2023
Books In Review: In witness to a wilting world Tishani Doshi’s poetic voice dwells between the scriptural and the cultural, between lesson and observation. by Benny Vanderburgh November 17, 2022
Books In Review: A fresh translation of Nelly Sachs’s later poems For Sachs, flight is multivalent: her flight from the Nazis, any refugee’s flight from oppression, God’s flight from God. by Jill Peláez Baumgaertner October 14, 2022
Books In Review: Paul Mariani seeks wisdom among the ghosts The poet, now in his eighties, asks profound questions in a dazzling array of poems. by Philip C. Kolin August 1, 2022
Books In Review: Joy Harjo gives words to the poet warriors who were her ancestors The Indigenous writer’s new memoir understands memory as counsel and ritual as the potency of love. by Jeffrey Johnson June 9, 2022
Books In Review: Anya Silver’s heart-wrenchingly beautiful last poems Saint Agnostica is a chronicle of grief, love, and mystery. by Jill Peláez Baumgaertner January 13, 2022
Books In Review: A new translation of “The Dark Night of the Soul” thrills with adventure In St. John of the Cross’s poetry, the dark night is also a night of profound, even ecstatic beauty. by Amy Frykholm December 20, 2021
Books In Review: Elegies for Jacki Poet Peter Cooley logs the year following his wife’s death with courage and brutal honesty. by Jeannine Marie Pitas October 14, 2021
People Dillard University professor Mona Lisa Saloy named poet laureate in Louisiana by Dawn Araujo-Hawkins September 20, 2021
Books In Review: Leila Chatti writes intensely physical poems about faith, illness, and sex The poetic vision of Deluge reconciles Muslim and Christian themes. by Jill Peláez Baumgaertner May 12, 2021
Books In Review: What does the Mississippi Delta sound like in verse? Philip Kolin’s poetry is about juke joints, bluesmen, mosquitoes, ladybugs, race, faith, and more. by Jill Peláez Baumgaertner March 10, 2021
Faith Matters This Lent, I want to learn to see the world like a poet Why I’ve chosen Michele Madigan Somerville's Glamourous Life as my Lenten companion. by Stephanie Paulsell February 17, 2021
Books In Review: Why do we write and read poetry? For both Paul Mariani and Mark Jarman, the mystery is theological. by Jeffrey Johnson December 31, 2020
Books In Review: Ted Kooser’s poetry of the Great Plains resonates across the world The beloved American poet lifts the everyday into the realm of the transcendent. by James Crews November 12, 2020
Books In Review: Danusha Laméris’s new book is filled with small kindnesses A luminous poetry collection marked by joy and sorrow, humor and truth. by James Crews October 16, 2020