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

But often it’s through unexpected juxtapositions that Monteiro evokes life’s mysteries. So, for instance, the poem “Solomon ...

The book is not only a what’s what of Christmas—its weather, rituals, trimmings, origins, and meanings—but a who’s who of poetry: W. H. Auden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Emily Dickinson, T. S ...

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 ...

It was in this final, impoverished period that he produced not only textbooks (a Latin grammar, a history of Britain) but also the pair of Christian epic poems, “Paradise Lost” and “Paradise ...

Nearly two decades ago, Christian Wiman was diagnosed with a rare cancer and told he probably had about five years to live. In a new book, he makes the case against despair. Casey Cep reports.

Marcia Falk, editor and translator, The Spectacular Difference: Selected Poems of Zelda (Hebrew Union College Press, 2004) An ultraorthodox lifelong Jerusalemite and member of the dynastic family of ...

Perhaps Hecht’s most famous poem is “A Hill,” the first poem in his second book, The Hard Hours.Much ink has been spilled at the foot of this mysterious vision, which according to the poem appears to ...

Christian Wiman says he's no longer afraid of dying. "When death hangs over you for a while, you start to forget about it," he says. Wiman's new book is Zero at the Bone.