By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

I was delighted recently to discover that three of my favorite authors, all from extremely different backgrounds and ...

William Cowper’s The Task, written in 1785, echoes today’s anxieties with eerie precision — war, oppression, the weight of the world. Can poetry offer solace in chaotic times? A journey through memory ...

Friendship, a covenant, romance—no matter what you call it, David’s love for Jonathan is one of the Bible’s most beautiful ...

It appears, for example, in the classic description of the relationship between God and Israel in the Book of Deuteronomy ... the author of beautiful poetry and the father of King Solomon, who is ...

Homer and Odysseus live in a world where there is no one morality common to all people. Odysseus is never condemned for being ...

That we should go into a room and close the door and talk to God in private. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. The blessing turned out to be a poem. Joy Harjo’s "Remember." ...

In the film, Hirsch reads his poem “My First Theology Lesson ... Rosensaft’s version of Psalms is animated by his father’s sustained if qualified belief in God despite the horrors ...

Petrarch (1304-1374), one of the founding fathers of humanism in Italian language and renaissance, could perhaps be described as the originator of the poetic genre 'sonnet' signified as a composition ...

Among those who wrote after the Holocaust was German poet Volker von Törne, who was wracked with vicarious guilt for his father’s Nazi past. But it is the poems ... And in My God, French ...

Some fear we’ll be buried in brimstone; others expect to be extinguished by A.I. But is there comfort to be found in our ...

The Altadena fire wiped out much of a historic Black enclave in this picturesque town in the San Gabriel Valley.