A tourist who is out of time approaches the end of his or her trip and must return home soon. This is how the Rev. David May ...

Any anthology is a product of its editor’s decisions. In “ 100 Great Catholic Poems ” (Word on Fire, $34.95), editor Sally ...

Readings on social media have created a new generation of audience for the poet Wendy Cope, Martin Wroe learns ...

Sometimes, the right book shows up just at the right time. Our book critic encountered two such books this week: Water, Water ...

Acclaimed San Antonio writer Naomi Shihab Nye talks about the “clarifying” power of poetry and why it’s needed in turbulent ...

Bragi Boddason was a famous Norwegian skaldic poet who lived in the first half of the 9th century and composed poetry about ...

That’s the instruction of today’s First Reading, too: Maintain hope, and listen when people are speaking hopeful things aloud. “Blessed is the one who reads aloud and blessed are those who listen to ...

Thanksgiving poems full of gratitude Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the ...

Before the Bible tells us God commanded Abraham to go to a distant, unfamiliar land, which would be where there’s now a ...

Through her own words, in two books she has written, author Romalita Harrison has found solace, peace and a desire to share ...

As keynote speaker for the 2024 Veteran's Day service at the Emma Kelly Theater, Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Nick Spletstoser told ...

She says that there is a time in everyone's life, probably in teens when most people are first drawn to poetry—they adore the sound of it and the music it holds—the rhyme that it offers. It is only ...