Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. You'll never lose by picking up any book with Harold Bloom's name on it. (As Bob Dylan sings on his new album, "I say it ...

I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...

In her charming introduction to this anthology, US poet laureate Ada Limón suggests that poems and trees “let us breathe together.” This comment calls to mind priest and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins’s ...

To English poetry George Herbert made a notable contribution, — he devised the religious love-lyric. This forms his substantial claim to originality. To state, illustrate, and qualify that claim is ...

The expression of doubt can be a refreshing alternative to most contemporary poets’ disregard for issues of faith. For Christian Wiman, doubt has not quite solidified into unbelief, which means his ...

During ANTIQUES ROADSHOW’s April 2018 visit to the Churchill Downs Racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky, a guest named Barry brought in a watercolor painting that had caught his eye at a local charity ...

Poet and professor of divinity Christian Wiman says that there are all kinds of poems he’s turned to during this pandemic. He especially enjoys poems that are joyful and have helped him perceive the ...

Kabir was a 15th/16th century devotional poet and social critic from northern India. The songs of Kabir are known and passionately performed far and wide in India today. Beloved for his rough rhetoric ...

Easter poems for kids are simple rhyming verses that celebrate Easter, springtime, the Easter Bunny, or the religious meaning of Easter in a way that’s easy for children to understand and maybe even ...

Recite these cozy Christmas poems to share the holiday spirit and make even your Grinchiest loved ones say, "Ho, ho, ho!" Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: ...