Life’s mysteries, juxtaposed
Theresa Monteiro’s debut poetry collection delivers a cosmic vision that always bursts through the mundane.
Standing on holy ground
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell’s poems carry the vision that all land, all people, and all moments are sacred.
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Praise, pilgrimage, and poetry
New collections by Jeanine Hathaway and Jeanne Murray Walker
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The radiance of religious poetry
Two anthologies locate grace in unexpected places.
Moving House: Poems
A subtitle for this collection of expertly crafted verse might be “A Memoir in Poetry.” Angela Alaimo O’Donnell has arranged the poems so that they loosely f...
The divine script: The art of Islamic calligraphy
For Muslims, the Qur’an is revered as God’s own art....
Restorative vision: Poetry reading
Wendell Berry has lived as a farmer and writer in Kentucky for a quarter century. In his fiction, essays and poetry, he often meditates on the human relation to the earth....
Grave dreams: The work of Wislawa Szymborska
Wislawa Szymborska, a Nobel Prize winner, makes poetry out of unusual materials: lists of instructions, clothes items, apologies or questions. Her tone can be wry or playful or chilling....
Finding Cuba, by Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner
Josephine Jacobsen says that she began writing poetry when she had experiences for which no adequate language existed....
Double take: Poetry reading
Poetry doesn’t have to be solemn. In a series of poems first published in 1990, U.S....