That’s not a poem specifically about Easter. Phyllis McGinley wrote it to celebrate attending church services on a fine spring day. The title is “Sunday Psalm” and it grows from a paraphrase of verse ...

"Sometimes we find that the best-loved Gospel stories become so familiar that we can no longer respond to them," says Rosenthal (The Poets' Jesus). "Poetry's special gift is to cast a fresh eye on the ...

This smallish gift book (roughly four by six inches) is a hodgepodge of the sacred and the secular; Easter hymns and Scripture quotations are found alongside folklore, recipes and international ...

MANCHESTER - New Hampshire poet laureate Walter Butts, who died on Easter, was remembered Wednesday as a strong advocate in expanding poetry to a wider audience. "He has such an open heart and ...