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poetry
Bearing witness, challenging God, voicing lament
I read a book of poems straight through without stopping. I couldn't help it.
Philip Kolin’s poems for the holy, violent earth
Yearning for the impossible, glimpsing the unimaginable
Literary faith from Dostoevsky to Marilynne Robinson
Poetry and fiction grant us glimpses of God.
Sacred impulse, poetic form
For Sofia Starnes, poetry is the language of faith.
“When I was nine or ten, I decided I needed to read the King James Bible.”
Ross Gay’s fierce, radiant joy
To love the world as an American black man is a subversive act.
Christian humanism in a technocratic world
Alan Jacobs's biography of T.S. Eliot, Simone Weil, W.H. Auden, Jacques Maritain, and C.S. Lewis
“My workshops are not designed to create poets. I am using poetry as a catalyst.”
The poet’s essays are winsome and articulate, wide-ranging and intellectually rigorous.
The value of God-shaped art
T. S. Eliot and the other modernist theologian-poets knew that artists are makers of worlds.
Poetry for a world that’s falling apart
Jeremiah Webster charts a via negativa in verse.
Christian Wiman’s stubborn, slippery faith
We need faith, Wiman suggests, because poetry isn't enough.
What wondrous poems are these
James Crews's poetry is at once ecstatic, skeptical, and hopeful.