These poems serve as ekphrastic ruminations on Genesis—its narrative and its language, which “carries what it names inside / and, like a folded paper flower / blooming in water, finds its form / in ...

What good is poetry as a response to suffering? Is poetry enough? Does the careful and often beautiful language of poetry trivialize the horror of the experience? The epigraph to Forest of Noise is ...

I’ve always relied on logic to make sense of myself and the world,” the Oscar winner said of the new book, out in September ...

From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf The greatest poetry books ever written I remember the first time I picked up ...

Book review: The recently released anthology Christian Poetry in America Since 1940 compiles the work of 35 poets to read during National Poetry Month.

“American Christmas,” first published in 1965, includes both classic and nearly unknown works, and widens a reader’s sense of what the holiday might mean.

Poet Christian Wiman, who teaches at Yale Divinity School and the Institute of Sacred Music, discusses his new book examining our preoccupation with despair.

Recite these cozy, festive Christmas poems to share the holiday spirit and make even your Grinchiest loved ones say, "Ho, ho, ho!" ...

Mr. Jacobs, a literary critic and professor at Baylor, has written a “biography” of “Paradise Lost”: a concise, lively and learned account of the poem’s creation and reception.

My sense is that these poems might pick up someone’s spirit, they might deposit a resolution regarding some values,’ Forbes ...

“Pennsy Trail: Poems and Essays” by Steven Coffin features pieces inspired by the trail through Hancock County. Editor’s note: The Daily Reporter will feature our “Neighbors” regularly ...