Megan Grumbling is a poet and writer who lives in Portland. DEEP WATER: Maine Poems is produced in collaboration with the ...

Runners-up, to be published in subsequent issues, include “Question,” a shimmering and spare nine-line poem, modest in length but intricate in design. I found myself repeating it to others ...

This soul-song of Am Yisrael, the Jewish People, a nineteenth-century poem has become a prayer, with music sung by Jews whose freedom was robbed and by Jews who won back our freedom, whose shift ...

This is why George Herbert, himself such a lover and practitioner of music, reached for transposition as a metaphor for prayer in that mysterious line from his poem “Prayer”: “The six-days world ...

Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ameliorate a war or hasten a peaceful resolution? Perhaps ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heather Lende, who lives in Haines, Alaska. Alaska has a Writer Laureate rather than a Poet Laureate and Heather, who has just finished a term in ...

Kingdom Kneelers sell for $19.99 online and feature three designs: A ram caught in a thicket, hands in a prayer posture wrapped ... or customized with a general design — maybe have better ...

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 ...

The magnificent “rondo” incorporates prose, footnotes and a visual design not unlike a street ... these lines from “soon”: “no poem / or plea or prayer pulled my papa off his woman ...

The common origins of poetry and prayer date back at least to the second millennium B.C., when the two functioned seamlessly as one expression. The oldest extant scripture, the Rigveda—a collection of ...

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 ...