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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. HALLOWELL — The Harlow Gallery, now at 100 Water St., will host ...

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 ...

It is the nature of regenerated man to voice his praise of God in poetry and song. Music and verse are natural handmaidens of true worship—that outpouring of soul in which the Christian seeks to ...

Garrison Keillor’s latest book is a collection of poems selected from the ones he has read on his daily five-minute show “The Writer’s Almanac,” which airs on public radio. These are poems, he says, ...

A HOPKINS READER (308 pp.)—Edifed by John Pick—Oxford ($4.50). Gerard Manley Hopkins thought of himself as a priest rather than a poet. In his Victorian lifetime, he never saw his poems in print.

Conversation touches on Hebrew parallelism, marriage, and the making of many books. I often say to my students that poetry is about things that matter. In his new poetry collection John Leax ...

Is Olga Sedakova Russia’s next Nobel laureate? The multitalented poet, essayist, translator and ethnographer is an astoundingly prolific writer: A four-volume edition of her collected works was ...

In the decidedly secular literary world, poet Christian Wiman, who was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in 2005, stands out as one who’s willing to talk about God. Wiman is the editor of Poetry ...

JACKSON — Not everyone knows this, but Christian spoken-word poetry is a thing. In fact, it’s becoming a bigger thing. And it’s coming to Jackson tonight in the ...

A $1,000 grand prize is being offered in a special religious poetry contest sponsored by Christian Fine Arts Society, free to everyone. There are 50 prizes in all, including a $1,000 Grand Prize, ...