Whisper and Shout: Poems to Memorize, ed. by Patrice Vecchione, offers up more than 50 poems for kids to commit to memory, from Gwendolyn Brooks's opening call to action, ""Speech to the Young: Speech ...

With a lens as a gateway between our eyes and space, we pretend to understand these distant shapes, these estranged cultures resting in a foreign place, of which our only knowledge comes from what our ...

This spring, we asked our readers to craft poems on the topic of dreams. Most of us have a hard time remembering how our dreams begin, but we can recall the feelings they evoke, whether a sense of ...

Deep suffering makes theologians of us all. The questions people ask about God in Sunday school rarely compare with the questions we ask while we are in the hospital. This goes for those stuck in the ...

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