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

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." ...

Donald Trump's inauguration offered another example of how religion and politics are blended in America today.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Father Michael said Saint Valentine was one, very real person– or at least the man that the church honored with a feast was no legend. He said he did not know of the secret marriage ceremonies, but ...

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

At some point, God had to take the leap / to become God.” RD Rishi Dastidar’s most recent poetry collection is ... her mother, her father, the streets where they lived, a whole lost world ...

A book of verse, professedly written in the sonnet genre, may appear as restrictive and constraining as to its scope and expanse but like the Urdu ghazal may contain a kaleidoscope of subjects, ...

(Check your local PBS station and website for viewing info) My father, Bruce Teicholz ... who was in the Vilna Ghetto and who wrote a poem a day in a bargain with God to survive, to Jewish ...