Eliza Griswold’s searing “Prayer,” from “If Men ... Naomi Shihab Nye is the 2019-21 Young People’s Poet Laureate of the Poetry Foundation in Chicago and the 2019 recipient of the ...

Living in a cabin in the Black Hills the last thirty years of his life (named the first poet laureate of South Dakota in 1937), he collected over fifty versions of today’s Poem of the Day, “A Cowboy’s ...

With so much having already been said — on all sides — about tomorrow’s election, I am taking my cue for this column from the Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama. Also a theologian and mediator, Ó ...

Eleonore “Ellie” Radtke, Fargo, talked to the Lord poetically a while ago. Then she shared her prayer poem with Neighbors. She titled it “I love to live.” Today, dear Lord, I’m 80 ...

We recognize him, too, as an influence on the writing of Lewis Carroll, whose “Atalanta in Camden-town” ran as our comic Poem of the Day last October, as well as an influence on G.K. Chesterton and ...

and for all. But Inaugural Day is first a time for celebration. For own my part, I offer a Poem, a Prayer, and a Promise: The Poem I wrote in the euphoric days immediately following the November ...

was once asked if she thinks poetry 'to some extent takes the place of religion' in a secular society. She replied, 'It does for me: I don't believe in God.' Her sonnet 'Prayer' is the voice of ...

Burns wrote about this poem in his First Commonplace Book, which was dated March 1784. ‘There was a certain period of my life that my spirit was broke by repeated losses and disasters ...

While searching for a poem to pair with a presentation I recently gave, I came across this moving selection titled "Prayer," from Dana Gioia's outstanding collection The Gods of Winter (1991).