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 ...

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 ...

He has published the chapbook, “Slow Wind,” with Finishing Line Press, and poems with Driftwood Press and Windward Review. In celebration of National Poetry Month, we invited submissions of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

His new Great Hall Commission, “A Metta Prayer,” turns the museum’s solemnity into a funky, queer-infused love poem to the universe, set to an acid house beat. The installation, made 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 ...