Poetry that bids us welcome. How is it that the poems of a 17th-century aristocrat still resonate with us? by Richard Lischer in the ... Robert Herrick, and others who composed both religious and ...

In his new anthology, Joy: 100 Poems, the writer Christian Wiman takes readers through the ostensible ordinariness of life and reveals the extraordinary. “We ate, and talked, and went to bed ...

Mary Karr describes herself as a black-belt sinner, and this -- her fourth collection of poems -- traces her improbable journey from the inferno of a tormented childhood into a resolutely ...

Here's a poem titled "I Am a Christian" that has been falsely attributed to Angelou and a Snopes reader emailed us in 2006: When I say I am a Christian — by Maya Angelou When I say … ...