poetry
The impossible, essential task of writing poetry after Auschwitz
Bearing witness, challenging God, voicing lament
Carried by a song of words
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.
A young poet shaped by religious language
“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
Writing poetry as a step toward common ground
“My workshops are not designed to create poets. I am using poetry as a catalyst.”
Remembering Mary Oliver and her prose
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.
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.
Poetry for the sake of creation
In the face of unprecedented assaults on planet Earth, what good is poetry?
How Christian was Meister Eckhart?
The eccentric preacher's ideas hover between God's absolute otherness and God's self-revelation in Christ.
Tracy K. Smith’s lovely, unflinching poems
Smith is acutely aware of injustice and violence—and remarkably hopeful about the possibility of reconciliation.