About ten years ago, I returned to church after a long hiatus. What drove me back to church was not a recovery of earlier beliefs or listeners. Poetry was in the hymns and in the simple words people ...

Brad Leithauser likes to look for poetry in graveyards. A novelist and poet himself, there's something he values greatly in tombstone epitaphs: brevity. "You really don't want to go on at great length ...

Poet Sam Taylor thinks we’ve taken our environment for granted for centuries and now we’re at a point of “crisis.” That is the driving theme in “Nude Descending an Empire,” his recent collection ...

After the fall and the flood, humanity shared one tongue and a desire to probe paradise. And they strung together a tower out of black tar, steaming bricks and syllables whose crown pierced that place ...

ancient words which tell me to do this counting. It’s a real Inception-level situation. Let us not speak of the day the manna stopped falling out of the sky, and we had to learn to fend for ourselves.

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