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 ...

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.

your fingers to a retaining wall. Every soul must be accounted for. Even the ladies, if for some reason you don’t want to mention their names. Remember, it’s always a good idea to go to Israel. But ...

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 ...

On the day that the poet Christian Wiman turned thirty-nine, he missed a phone call from his doctor. For months, he’d been playing with a bump above his collarbone, one so small he sometimes literally ...