Patrick McCleary, Fargo, enjoys writing spiritual poems. Here are a couple he sent to Neighbors.

The beauties of a book by Joseph Donahue? Here’s a list. Mysterious events happen in many world-wide geographical zones, and you accept them for the pleasure of attending to them curiously.

Since 1996, the Academy of American Poets has been designating April as National Poetry Month to celebrate “poets’ integral role in our culture” and to remind readers “that poetry matters,” according ...

because the Rabbis who came later said so. Still, the details haunt me. There is a lot of blood and descriptions of what’s to be done with their innards. I hadn’t read this in 1986 when I became a ...

I don’t like change. I’m even afraid of the next lines of this poem because they’re uncertain. so flies and raccoons don’t walk in.) Change is Egypt. Change is forgetting what comes after Egypt.

When most people today hear the name Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), they remember him as a British poet. But during his lifetime he was known primarily as a Jesuit priest, a zealous Roman Catholic ...

The image startles the way many of Raymond Roseliep’s images startle. His association between the figure and the cornfield underscores Ezra Pound’s poetic dictum, “Make it new.” As dark and as stark ...

Recite these cozy Christmas poems to share the holiday spirit and make even your Grinchiest loved ones say, "Ho, ho, ho!" Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: ...

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be ...