poetry
Why is a love poem full of sex in the Bible? Readers have been struggling with the Song of Songs for 2,000 years
By Jonathan Kaplan — February 14, 2023
(The Conversation) — The famous biblical book alludes to God only once. Historically, though, most interpreters have argued the poem’s about love between the divine and his people.
The alienation of Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land,’ at 100, has come to feel like home
By Karen Swallow Prior — December 13, 2022
(RNS) — The December birthday ‘The Waste Land’ shares with Christmas foreshadows the Easter that is to come.
For Biden, Palestinian struggle has an Irish Catholic cast
By Daoud Kuttab — July 25, 2022
(RNS) — The comparison to the Irish reflects a new and important value to Palestinians who aspire to live in a free and independent state of their own.
Amanda Gorman, my grandma and the Black tears we cried
By Danté Stewart — January 21, 2021
(RNS) — 'We been in a rut, and we been in a rut for a long time now, but history is being made today,' Grandma said to me on the phone as she watched the inauguration.
How two poems about the coronavirus went viral by addressing spiritual needs
By Yonat Shimron — March 27, 2020
(RNS) — Written by two little-known poets, both poems preach slowing down, becoming more mindful, seeking out stillness and finding connection with humankind (without touching).
Why this rabbi loved Mary Oliver
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 17, 2019
Her poetry speaks to our souls -- whatever faith or non-faith we are.
Omid Safi’s ‘Radical Love’ recenters Sufi poetry within Islam
By Aysha Khan — June 11, 2018
(RNS) — Omid Safi's new book 'Radical Love' offers a reminder to Muslims and non-Muslims alike: You can't divorce Rumi's mystical poetry from Islam.
What was Rumi’s ‘secret’?
By Kimberly Winston — June 1, 2017
(RNS) A new biography of the 13th-century Sufi mystic attempts to flesh out the man — and the mystery — behind the best-selling poet in America.
Kansas City teacher astonishes with $2 million gift to Jesuits
By Sally Morrow — February 9, 2016
KANSAS CITY (RNS) Anna Kurzweil lived a simple and unpretentious life. So when it emerged that she left such a large sum to the Jesuits, nobody could believe it.
Poet Wendell Berry bequeaths farming legacy to small Catholic college
By Judith Valente — February 5, 2016
(RNS) The 81-year-old writer decides against teaming up with a large university agricultural program, and instead selects a small Catholic liberal arts college run by the Dominican Sisters of Peace.
How to access the spiritual power of poetry–even if you “just don’t get it”
By Jonathan Merritt — February 26, 2015
New York Times columnist David Brooks called Christian Wiman's "My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer" the "best modern book on belief." Here Wiman shares how people of faith can begin accessing the spiritual power of poetry even if, at first, they "just don't get it."
Facebook Rumi: How a Muslim mystic became a popular meme
By Omid Safi — March 2, 2013
These memes and Facebook sayings are transforming a 13th century Muslim mystic into the perfect New Age mystic.
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