Christian Poetry in America Since 1940: An Anthology, edited by Micah Mattix and Sally Thomas, calls to mind the old quote attributed to Mark Twain, "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." As ...

It is the nature of regenerated man to voice his praise of God in poetry and song. Music and verse are natural handmaidens of true worship—that outpouring of soul in which the Christian seeks to ...

This encyclopedia provides a surprisingly complete collection of entries on American poetry and poets from the early colonial to the contemporary era. Included are both major and lesser-known poets ...

A HOPKINS READER (308 pp.)—Edifed by John Pick—Oxford ($4.50). Gerard Manley Hopkins thought of himself as a priest rather than a poet. In his Victorian lifetime, he never saw his poems in print.

Clearly, T. S. Eliot is the most influential poet writing in English in our time. There is probably no living writer about whose work there has grown up such a body of critical commentary. So great ...

Nearly two decades ago, the poet Christian Wiman was diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma. Doctors told Wiman, who was 39 at the time, that he likely had five years to live. In the ensuing 19 years, ...

Is Olga Sedakova Russia’s next Nobel laureate? The multitalented poet, essayist, translator and ethnographer is an astoundingly prolific writer: A four-volume edition of her collected works was ...

"GREATER GHOST" by Christian J. Collier (Four Way Books, 88 pages, $18). Poet Christian Collier's work has appeared in such publications as Hayden's Ferry Review, North American Review, Poetry and ...

A $1,000 grand prize is being offered in a special religious poetry contest sponsored by Christian Fine Arts Society, free to everyone. There are 50 prizes in all, including a $1,000 Grand Prize, ...