Mariani, a former poetry editor of America, answered: All my life I’ve been a practicing Catholic. It’s the foundation of who and what I am, and I try to take my Catholicism seriously.

The phrase “poetry of Catholicism” is the late Andrew Greeley’s, whose writing often revealed the poet in the social scientist. Interesting as it may be, it presents a topic of questionable ...

My sense is that these poems might pick up someone’s spirit, they might deposit a resolution regarding some values,’ Forbes ...

How ‘America the Beautiful’ was born. To gather inspiration for her patriotic poem, scholar and social activist Katharine Lee Bates traveled the U.S.

America shall be! The poem is not from 1963, however, but from 1936, a year when the Communist Party of the United States ... Who made America, Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain, ...

The musical setting, now used with Bates's poem, was written in 1882 by composer and organist Samuel Augustus Ward. He wrote the tune, in his head, while on a ferryboat trip from Coney Island back ...

The nation's first purpose-built mosque opened in Cedar Rapids in the 1930s, and its history is still instructive, writes ...

There’s poetry all over Scripture, in Psalms, Song of Songs, Lamentations, Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes and the Prophets. And there’s poetry in the liturgy and in the hymns and songs of the church.

PATERSON, BOOK IV (55 pp.)—William Carlos Williams—New Directions ($3).Since 1946, Poet and Pediatrician William Carlos Williams has been publishing parts of a long poem, Paterson. In ...

(RNS) — “I sing of a new American,” Pauli Murray wrote in her poem, “Prophecy,” in 1969. As a priest, legal scholar and civil rights activist, Murray recognized the often tragic history ...