In a 1956 Atlantic issue showcasing poetry, cummings offered a modernist take on the familiar story of Jesus’s birth. Over the past 160 years, The Atlantic has published the work of some of the ...

Rossetti’s “Love Came Down at Christmas” has simple verses that equate the birth of Jesus Christ as love sent from heaven itself, but it’s this simplicity that makes this Christmas poem so ...

Though they always are, even in, especially in, the origin story of Jesus. This poem reminds me that I was reading a book of poems in the hospital room while my wife gave birth to our first son ...

Yet the New Testament Gospels do not agree about the details of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem. Some do not mention Bethlehem or Jesus’ birth at all. The Gospels’ different views might be hard to ...