Students in my history of England class this week are getting their first dose of early English poetry, a brief immersion into their cultural history that, at worst, will do them no harm. Their ...

A meteor from the universe of Wystan Hugh Auden flashed into the atmosphere of American culture in 1994 when “Funeral Blues,” a poem written in 1936, was recited in a eulogy scene in the movie Three ...

When poetry gives voice to those who have no voice—those who are dead, marginalized, or ignored—it helps resurrect lives from oblivion. Such poems are called “poems of witness.” Molly McCully Brown’s ...

According to one scholar, it has been called the “greatest Christian poem written in English.” That’s a debatable call but a position that one would well argue. It is certainly one of the oldest poems ...

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 ...

BEDFORD, Ind. — Maybe it was the way people look at the person with a terminal illness. The people who mean well, but their expressions turn sad when finding out the young girl before them has brain ...

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 ...

BEDFORD — Maybe it was the way people look at the person with a terminal illness. The people who mean well, but their expressions turn sad when finding out the young girl before them has brain cancer.