Sergeant First Class Kate Cole isn’t an activist. She isn’t a radical. She’s a trans woman, a rock climber, and my friend—and after 17 years of military service, Trump kicked her out. With its long ...

THE Holy Spirit is the poetry and music of God. The Christian tradition offers a magnificent variety of verse and song — new and old, ancient and modern — declaring that the Spirit, the breath of God, ...

I could have stayed there forever. I felt it. I felt the breath of God on my cheek as he whispered in a voice of such love, "Receive the Holy Spirit." He gave me my life's mission in that moment.

In a single in-and-out of the breath, Amanda Gorman ... hours of our renewal, invite God to help us believe in goodness and truth by opening the moment up to poetry.

The poem above is from Smith’s long poem, “My God, It’s Full of Stars,” from her book “Life on Mars.” She is the author of three collections of poetry: “Life on Mars” (Graywolf ...

For the first day of a week of war poetry in the Sun, guest editor Phil Klay writes: “God” by Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918) is perhaps an odd poem to pick, if we’re looking for poems about soldiers and ...

(RNS) — The normally simple, normally unconscious act of drawing breath has come to define the United States’ most pressing problems. The country has been racked by COVID-19 — a disease that ...

But I’ll tell you this, Laura Kolbe’s prose poem “Buried Abecedary for Intensive Care” is a poem of these times. It’s not about Covid, but my God — from line to line I am remembering ...

Saint John of the Cross (1542–1591) occupies a place in Spanish literature that doesn’t quite match anything in English poetry. He’s not exactly the ... “Songs of the Soul in Intimate Amorous ...

Much like Precious Okoyomon’s visual works — living installations that invent new lyric ecosystems — this poem starts with ... To vesicles of present breath Swallow bits of tenderness ...