Leila Chatti, a Tunisian-American poet whose father was Muslim and mother Catholic, has written an astounding book of poems. Bold and provocative, Deluge presents intensely physical poems about faith, ...

Joyce Folsom Johnson, of Shapleigh, has launched her new book, "Poems of Faith and Inspiration," and a CD of one of her poems from this collection, "The Fourth of July." Johnson was born in Shapleigh ...

In 1996, Mary Karr converted to Catholicism, a fact likely to intrigue or puzzle readers familiar with her best-selling memoirs "The Liars' Club" and "Cherry," hardscrabble tales of growing up tough ...

There is a poem in the midst of St. Peter’s B-List: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints that moves me to tears whenever I read it. Sometimes I save it for the end of a day that has been a grind, ...

According to one scholar, it has been called the “greatest Christian poem written in English.” That’s a debatable call but a position that one would well argue. It is certainly one of the oldest poems ...

Poetry can soothe the soul; it can lift us when we're done, make us feel less alone and envelope us in a calming world of rhythm and hope. I have gathered together five of the poems that I turn to in ...

Jane Gregory’s poetry privileges sound — one of poetry’s most powerful aspects — over meaning, looping nonlinearly while stacking and riffing off prior language. The second line is a near replica of ...

Remember in the first place that this is not an anthology of modern poetry, so called, or of recent Poetry in general. It is not meant to be, if we may believe the statement on the cover that Mrs.