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 ...

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 ...

"I wrote a poem called A Sister's Prayer, and I wrote it for my brother that is deployed," she said. "My brother, Alan, is currently serving overseas." Green added, "He means the world to me ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his sophomore poetry collection Pilgrim Bell, Kaveh Akbar shapes language into prayer, into body, into patchwork — clarifying only what can be known. A divine journey within the framework 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 ...