Poems in honor of a Benedictine life
Philip Kolin's longtime spiritual director was a chain-smoking oblate who fed everyone.
poetry
Miss Brooks would be 100 years old today. Her poetic-prophetic vision is worth celebrating.
Poems of witness
Molly McCully Brown recovers the lives of women at an institution notorious for its eugenics program.
Mary Magdalene is every woman
Marie Howe’s poems present Magdalene in many forms, contemporary and ancient.
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These are not poetic times. We live and breathe prose.
When arguments fail us, we turn to words of wonder.
The isolation of Wallace Stevens
A new biography reveals the poet’s devotion to his vocation. It also reveals his loneliness.
Poet in black?
Johnny Cash was a lot of things. Was he a literary writer?
Inventing a voice for Louis Till
John Edgar Wideman counters the official record of Emmett Till’s father with a more empathetic version.