Faith & Poetics

Article

The Psalms as Poetry

The function of the Psalms is to make us share in the poetic experience of the men who wrote them

By Thomas Merton

January 29, 2018

Poetry

Spirituality

From the Archives

Article

The Poetry of Saint Thomas

G. K. Chesterton defends Thomas Aquinas against the charge that his theology is not poetic

By G. K. Chesterton

March 6, 2014

From the Archives

Poetry

Theology

Article

No Christian poetry worthy of the name has been written by anyone who was not in some degree a contemplative

Poetry and the Contemplative Life

By Thomas Merton

April 27, 2014

From the Archives

Poetry

Spirituality

Feature

Prophet of Harlem

Besides Claude McKay’s status as a canonical poet of the Harlem Renaissance, there’s another side of him that rarely comes into public view

By Griffin Oleynick

July 7, 2017

Feature

An Interview with Peter Cole

Poet and translator Peter Cole discusses the poetry of theology, translation and Jewishness, and poetry that makes the world more interesting

By Anthony Domestico

April 30, 2018

Books

Poetry

Theology

Jewish-Christian Relations

Feature

Intelligible Mysteries

Modern artists and modern theologians had a lot to say to one another

By Anthony Domestico

November 10, 2017

Poetry

Theology

Books

Article

An Interview with Christian Wiman

The poet discusses "accidental theologies," Gerard Manley Hopkins, faith in literature, and what it's like no longer being the editor of Poetry magazine.

By Anthony Domestico

April 16, 2014

Secularism and Modernity

Feature

Hallowing the Gaps

God’s ineffability demands a creative use of language

By Robert M. Pennoyer II

June 14, 2017

Spirituality

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Last Word: Stand & Wait

Suffering changes how you read poetry. That lesson came home to me in a profound way when I taught John Milton’s Sonnet 19.

By Kelly Scott Franklin

January 26, 2017

The Last Word

Feature

An Interview with Ernesto Cardenal

The poet and priest Ernesto Cardenal discusses a poetry of useful prophecy

By Ronald Christ

April 26, 1974

Poetry

Economy

From the Archives

Article

We come to a rediscovery of religious verse in the present mid-century, a decade in which the distance between poetry and religion seems much shorter

Rediscovery of Religious Poetry

By Horace Gregory

January 4, 1957

From the Archives

Secularism and Modernity

Poetry

Article

A Hard-Earned Detachment

This death-haunted and deeply Catholic poetry collection offers hope

By Anthony Domestico

April 8, 2018

Death and Dying

Books

Poetry