Jane Gregory’s poetry privileges sound — one of poetry’s most powerful aspects — over meaning, looping nonlinearly while stacking and riffing off prior language. The second line is a near replica of ...

Remember in the first place that this is not an anthology of modern poetry, so called, or of recent Poetry in general. It is not meant to be, if we may believe the statement on the cover that Mrs.

Leila Chatti, a Tunisian-American poet whose father was Muslim and mother Catholic, has written an astounding book of poems. Bold and provocative, Deluge presents intensely physical poems about faith, ...

There is a poem in the midst of St. Peter’s B-List: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints that moves me to tears whenever I read it. Sometimes I save it for the end of a day that has been a grind, ...

Joyce Folsom Johnson, of Shapleigh, has launched her new book, "Poems of Faith and Inspiration," and a CD of one of her poems from this collection, "The Fourth of July." Johnson was born in Shapleigh ...

Poet and Kingwood resident Barbara Booth Hemphill feels as comfortable with Bible verse as she does with free verse. Hemphill recently won an Independent Publishers award for her — one of only a ...

When I was diagnosed with stage 1A cervical cancer, I realized that life is short and I want to spend my time being the best version of myself. To be able to enjoy my life as a cancer survivor…more ...

Clergy who have fled Russian-occupied Ukraine are finding new ways to provide pastoral care for parishioners who are still there. I remember when my son first asked me what history is. I told him it’s ...

the borders of our bodies, past the granite solidity around, past chai-sellers, dream-vendors, and high minarets in ochre and gold. These poems have been excerpted from My City is a Murder of Crows by ...