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Peggy Rosenthal

Peggy Rosenthal is the author of several books on spirituality in poetry, including The Poets’ Jesus.

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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.
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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...
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The divine script: The art of Islamic calligraphy

For Muslims, the Qur’an is revered as God’s own art....
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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....
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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....
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Finding Cuba, by Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner

Josephine Jacobsen says that she began writing poetry when she had experiences for which no adequate language existed....
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Double take: Poetry reading

Poetry doesn’t have to be solemn. In a series of poems first published in 1990, U.S....
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In the beginning

The first thing that strikes us about Lucille Clifton’s poetry is what is missing: capitalization, punctuation, long and plentiful lines....

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In violent times

Art can bring together those parts of us which exist in dread and those which have the surviving sense of a possible happiness, collectivity, community, a loss of isolation,” wrote the American poe...
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Poet of the hidden God: R. S. Thomas: 1913-2000

"The finest Christian poet alive today is the Welsh poet R. S. Thomas. Our century has produced some magnificent Christian poetry, but R. S....

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