Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Good Letters

Home
Catholic

poetry

Select a Category A. G. Harmon Alissa Wilkinson Allison Backous Art Authors Brad Fruhauff Bradford Winters Bryan Bliss Caroline Langston Chad Thomas Johnston Chris Hoke Christiana N. Peterson Culture D.G. Myers D.L. Mayfield Daniel Bowman Jr. David Griffith Elizabeth Duffy Faith Film Greg Wolfe Guest Contributor Interview Jan Vallone Jeffrey Overstreet Jessica Eddings-Roeser Jessica Mesman Griffith Kelly Foster Lindsey Crittenden Morgan Meis music Natalie Vestin Nick Olson Peggy Rosenthal Personal Reflection Poetry Friday Reflection Relationships Review Richard Chess Richard Cole Sara Zarr Shannon Huffman Polson Sonya Bilocerkowycz Tania Runyan Tony Woodlief Topical Categories Uncategorized Vic Sizemore Writing

Select a Month October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 February 2008

October 2018

October 12, 2018

Poetry Friday: “Lord, Sky”

The compelling narrative of “Lord, Sky,” set during the time of an election, is also...

October 08, 2018

On Writing Odes: Taking Time to Celebrate

Amidst the constant stream of bad news these days, we would do well to make...

October 05, 2018

Poetry Friday: “The Burned Butterfly”

My oldest daughter’s was gifted a butterfly garden for her 3rd birthday. We watched the...

October 02, 2018

A Conversation with Alicia Ostriker: Part 2

“When I write a poem, I am crawling into the dark. Or else I am...

October 01, 2018

A Conversation with Alicia Ostriker: Part 1

Image issue #98 includes poems by critic, activist, and biblical scholar Alicia Ostriker, winner of...

August 2018

August 16, 2018

A Letter To Stephen Dunn

Dear Steve, I’ve had to look away for most of three decades now—away from your...

August 15, 2018

Maya Angelou’s Caged Bird and Me

But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings —Paul Lawrence Dunbar, “Sympathy” I...

July 2018

July 03, 2018

Sonnets in the Prime of My Life

The sonnet, of course, is the gold standard of form, the first one most people...

June 2018

June 18, 2018

Yehuda Amichai: My One Poet

If I could have only one poet, I’d choose Yehuda Amichai. He’s the poet of...

May 2018

May 08, 2018

Halted by Haiku

The last thing the world needs is another post about “living in the moment,” but...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

Poetry Friday: “hydrangea”

This is the time of year when I anxiously wait for flowers to reappear. Our...

April 10, 2018

Singing Silence in A Far Country Near

“Without the traffic, silence / itself would sound red birdsong…” As I’m reading these lines...

April 06, 2018

Poetry Friday: “To Begin With”

Wakefield’s poem presents the metaphor of a peach as the speaker’s body: “I’ll let the...

April 05, 2018

Poetry at the Goodwill

When I was a soccer-obsessed fifteen-year-old, I had no use for poetry. I endured my...

April 04, 2018

Villanelles on Planes

I took several short flights this month, the kind in which going through security takes...

March 2018

March 23, 2018

Poetry Friday: “Being the Song”

If you write poetry, odds are you don’t expect your work to achieve acclaim like...

March 14, 2018

I Will Sing Your Praise

For a few years in the late 1990s, early 2000s, I brought a book of...

March 01, 2018

The Spirituality of Sestinas

Several months ago, I found myself struggling with my hair—namely, snapping off my split ends...

February 2018

February 20, 2018

A Conversation with Marilyn Nelson: Part 2

Marilyn Nelson is the author or translator of twelve books and three chapbooks. Her honors...

February 19, 2018

A Conversation with Marilyn Nelson: Part 1

The daughter of a Tuskegee Airman and a teacher, Marilyn Nelson was brought up primarily on...

January 2018

January 19, 2018

Poetry Friday: “Sometimes I Am Permitted”

On my first reading of this poem, I felt disoriented by all the non sequiturs,...

January 12, 2018

Poetry Friday: “Sabbath”

Sabbath as beloved bride and queen: familiar tropes in Jewish liturgy and thought. Now, thanks...

January 05, 2018

Poetry Friday: “Birth/Rebirth”

In advent and the beginning of a new year, I tend to think a lot...

November 2017

November 24, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Saint Francis Appears at the Scene of an Accident, Then Joins the Murmuration”

Reflecting on a strange or disturbing story as a distant narrator can often have a...

November 02, 2017

The Poetry of Richard Wilbur

I don’t remember when I first starting reading Richard Wilbur’s poetry. But his death on...

November 01, 2017

Remembering Richard Wilbur (1921-2017), Part 2

Richard Wilbur was always a formalist at heart, but one attuned to the rhythms of...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

Remembering Richard Wilbur (1921-2017), Part 1

It was back in the summer of 1995 during Image’s Glen Workshop that I had...

September 2017

September 29, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Underwhelmed”

Put on your hiking books and grab your compass, magnifying glass, and shovel: this poem...

September 22, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Cellar Door”

I love poems that stitch together memories from opposite ends of a lifetime, connecting them...

September 15, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Medieval Miniatures: Entry into Jerusalem”

Dan Murphy has written a series of poems inspired by medieval miniatures: those marvelously detailed...