Christian Poetry in America Since 1940: An Anthology, edited by Micah Mattix and Sally Thomas, calls to mind the old quote attributed to Mark Twain, "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." As ...

This encyclopedia provides a surprisingly complete collection of entries on American poetry and poets from the early colonial to the contemporary era. Included are both major and lesser-known poets ...

Nearly two decades ago, the poet Christian Wiman was diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma. Doctors told Wiman, who was 39 at the time, that he likely had five years to live. In the ensuing 19 years, ...

Today Jessica called me from Massachusetts. She’d been on a long bike ride when her handlebars broke and she nearly crashed. While walking the next couple of miles to a repair shop, she decided to ...

I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...

A HOPKINS READER (308 pp.)—Edifed by John Pick—Oxford ($4.50). Gerard Manley Hopkins thought of himself as a priest rather than a poet. In his Victorian lifetime, he never saw his poems in print.

Claudette Inglis tackles addiction, hopelessness, and heartbreak in her book Heartfelt Expressions LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, October 6, 2023 ...

Christian Paige is a poet. That’s not something the native Tacoman would have admitted as a 10-year-old living in the city’s south end. “I grew up in neighborhoods, where if you were carrying a ...

A version of this story ran in the March / April 2025 issue. Amanda Johnston learned she would become the 2024 Texas poet laureate via an afternoon cell phone call on an otherwise typical workday in ...