What is poetry in the face of war?
Mosab Abu Toha’s poems are about Gaza. Reading them I saw all people who suffer.
Understanding Czesław Miłosz
Eva Hoffman, a fellow exile from Poland, writes about the Nobel-winning author like no one else could.
A Job who’s read Job
Poet Michael Shewmaker imagines a suffering Christian in Kilgore, Texas, with three unhelpful friends.
The great and strange John Donne
Katherine Rundell’s biography offers something new: she matches the poet’s energy with her own.
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.
Anya Silver’s heart-wrenchingly beautiful last poems
Saint Agnostica is a chronicle of grief, love, and mystery.
Leila Chatti writes intensely physical poems about faith, illness, and sex
The poetic vision of Deluge reconciles Muslim and Christian themes.
What does the Mississippi Delta sound like in verse?
Philip Kolin’s poetry is about juke joints, bluesmen, mosquitoes, ladybugs, race, faith, and more.
The books we’re giving as Christmas gifts
If your secret Santa were a Century editor, here’s what you might be getting.
Christian Wiman’s poems of love and doubt
Massive struggle, intense suffering, and abundant joy
The impossible, essential task of writing poetry after Auschwitz
Bearing witness, challenging God, voicing lament
Philip Kolin’s poems for the holy, violent earth
Yearning for the impossible, glimpsing the unimaginable
The winners of the Reformation Poetry Contest
We received many poems we would have been pleased to print. In the end we chose two.
Elegies without consolation
An anthology of poetry mourning the demise of the Church of England