poetry

In this poem, Allison Joseph reveals the truth about public transportation: it’s public.

A poem in the ghazal form that elegizes Emmett Till, an African American boy who was murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after reportedly whistling at a white woman.

This is a second poem by Elizabeth Hoover that uses the photography of Saul Leiter as a source for meditative dialogue on the nature of an image.

This poem by Elizabeth Hoover uses the photography of Saul Leiter as a source for a meditative dialogue on the nature of an image.

I will make him with red hair and a fiery tongue I will give him a country and a century a limp and strong hands I will take his wife but give him a daughter lovely enough to break his heart and will send him across the sea where he will die an old man […]

Tangled Alphabets, an exhibit currently on display at The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City, brings together the works of visual artist contemporaries León Ferrari and Mira Schendel in their visual exploration of language.

This essay explores the relationships between poetry, contemplation, and love in Thomas Merton’s writing and proposes potential applications of this theopoetic style of contemplation to our daily lives and methods of pastoral care.

In this Part II of this interview with the Scott Cairns, the poet describes his unique views on the mystical nature of poetry and connects them to his understanding of sacrament.

In this interview the accomplished poet Scott Cairns describes his unique views on the mystical nature of poetry and connects them to his understanding of sacrament.