Karr's battle is grounded in common loss (a bitter romance, friends' deaths, a teenage son's leaving home ... "On Poetry and Faith." In that essay, included in Sinners Welcome, Ms. Karr, a ...

In his new anthology, Joy: 100 Poems, the writer Christian Wiman takes readers through ... the poet Danielle Chapman (Wiman’s essay “Love Bade Me Welcome” in part offers a moving portrait ...

The words of Henry Gauding's poem are as true today as they were when he wrote them as a welcome for the troops returning home after World War I. As the Desert Storm troops begin returning to the ...

For the past 14 years, Christian Bök has been trying to encode a poem into bacterium. Along the way he taught himself molecular biology and wrote his first love poem to another person.