We may earn a commission from your purchases. Throughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, transcended cultural barriers and ultimately withstood the test of time.

Thomas Merton expressed this vision in his poetry, novels, essays, devotionals ... We shake the chips out of our robes outside the door And go to hide in cowls as deep as clouds, Bowing our shoulders ...

The United Methodist Church’s splintering has prompted Methodism’s ecumenical association to formalize its guidelines for admitting new members.... Eliza Griswold profiles a progressive evangelical ...

The writing in this poem is taut, graceful and intelligent in a way that shows the mystical themes of life, including love, death, the mind and body, the church and Christ, and idealism.

The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local and area writers every Tuesday. Send poems to life@postbulletin.com with the subject line "Poetry submission." ...

She finds writing poetry to be a helpful creative outlet during her days at college. The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local and area writers every Tuesday. Send poems to life@postbulletin.com ...

Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry. From the prehistoric poems of the Nile ...

I find mossy river banks and vine-overgrown caves. Until I’m dust in the wind, until I’m deposited upon a seed and its branch springs out ...

Learn about rhythm in poetry and how it can be used as device which has an effect on the reader. How to understand open and closed form in poetry Closed form poetry uses stricts patterns of rhymes ...

Boyd, Matthieu 2013. The Languages of British Literature and the Stakes of Anthologies. Pedagogy, Vol. 13, Issue. 2, p. 303. Jimenez-Munoz, Antonio 2018. Unworked and ...

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Third and Final Continent,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1999. The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ...