I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...

What is it about life’s big and little moments that calls for a poem? At weddings. At funerals. On greeting cards. In church. On the radio. At moments of great happiness or deep sadness. At beginnings ...

As National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’re closing up our poetry inbox. All month, we’ve invited people to send us their own original poems, responding to a prompt each week. We’ve heard from ...

Briana McCarthy is a local Franciscan, retired educator and pastoral counselor, who enjoys composing narrative poems on various subjects. Briana has a background in theater arts, elementary and ...

“I have a dream.” You have heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during the 1963 ...

I am in here; would you look and see? I am fighting against the cancer that has gotten ahold of me. I am in here, would you look, and see? I am more than a diagnosis of sickness and disease. I am in ...