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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here's Yusef Komunyakaa reading from his poem "A Prayer For Workers." YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA: (Reading) Daybreak to sunset, as gritty stories of a people grow into an epic stitched down through the ages ...

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).