"The finest Christian poet alive today is the Welsh poet R. S. Thomas. Our century has produced some magnificent Christian poetry, but R. S. Thomas has written the most convincing.” So commented poet ...

In Act 4 of our seven act drama of consolation: God speaks! In previous episodes, the people of Israel went to school. They learned to see God in the stars, and their history in rocks and stones. Last ...

Video of a slam poetry performance by a twenty-year-old University of North Carolina drama student is going viral, with nearly 70,000 views on YouTube. The controversial title and message of his poem: ...

Poet Jack Smith has served as Dorchester County’s first-ever poet laureate since 2001. He said he has been writing poetry for most of his life, and much of his work is historical, patriotic and ...

War, impending war and exile forced by war, are increasing preoccupations in the work of Ladan Osman – not so much the wars, but the damage that they do to everyday people who are trying to live in ...

Now that we're done with all that fiscal cliff wrangling (sort of), it's time to move on to priority No. 2: the next year in poetry. Just kidding. But, with the whole year stretching out before us, it ...

Phil Klay is always named among the best of contemporary American writers — especially about war and soldiers. After serving in the Marine Corps in Iraq, he would win the National Book Award for ...

When Dave is whisked into the center of space, Which unfurls in an aurora of orgasmic light And the great gleaming set goes black. We’ll have a profile of Tracy K. Smith on Monday’s NewsHour and post ...