CHRISTIAN WIMAN is a poet and editor of Poetry magazine in Chicago. His most recent book of poems, Every Riven Thing, was published last fall by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Some existential glitch in ...

A prolific literary critic, editor of the Southern Quarterly, and University Distinguished Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, Philip C. Kolin is one of the growing tribe of very fine ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. “What makes a poem a poem?” a student in my high school English class asked ...

For some, storytelling has long been one of humanity's tools for understanding the past and its truth. Whether spanning ...

I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...

Christian Poetry in America Since 1940: An Anthology, edited by Micah Mattix and Sally Thomas, calls to mind the old quote attributed to Mark Twain, "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." As ...

Malcolm Guite has found himself a sort of tribal elder for younger generations of Christians. On a cool, drizzly summer day in Vancouver, a few Regent College students trailed after their visiting ...

Imagine a poet is an accordion. The keys make melody, the buttons make harmony, and the bellows squeeze breath into the poem. A poet is not just a singer, then, but a one-man-band with a rhythm ...

Do you remember the last poem you read, or heard? Statistics suggest it has probably been since high school that the average American took the time (or was forced by a teacher) to read a piece of ...

Around 250 Christian activists have protested outside the Welsh assembly building about a poetry reading. Patrick Jones was invited by two assembly members to read from his collection Darkness Is ...