Poetry

Praise for Sr. Sharon Hunter: “These poems hear your broken heart and help you name your unshed tears.” —Ronald Rolheiser, author of The Holy Longi...

Winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, and New York Times bestselling author Nikki Grimes introduces Glory, Too, a soul-stirring collection of poe...

“Luci Shaw is a legend” —Christianity TodayThis captivating collection of poems by beloved author Luci Shaw, reflects on daily ideas and activities...

From the pen of beloved poet Luci Shaw comes a new collection that celebrates inspired creativity as an antidote to chaos.The poet’s own words best...

An imagined conversation with Dante Alighieri written in response to the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death by fellow Catholic poet, lover and mas...

 This is a book to savor slowly and return to often.” —Malcolm Guite, author of Sounding the Seasons and other collectionsNew poetry from Scott Cai...

2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year FINALIST"...wonder shows up in these poets' work again and again." - America MagazineA Landmark Anthology of ...

"The word 'angel' means 'messenger' and the title poem of this book, 'Angels Everywhere,' presents the idea that what I often glimpse is a flicker ...

A new collection of poems by Palestinian-American Catholic poet Andrew Calis, Which Seeds Will Grow? ​finds hope in the Holy Land. Grappling with ...

According to legend, the language of the birds was a mystical language God used to talk with Adam and Eve when he walked with them in the garden of...

A new collection from the best and most prolific poets published in the Christian Century over the past twenty-five years. The 34 poets whose work ...

“Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground." —Exodus 3:5“The Holy Land is everywhere.” —Black ElkT...

Holy Sparks is a collection of poems grounded in a belief in the kinship between the cosmos and its Creator. Biophilic imagery is used throughout t...

Winner of the 2023 Christianity Book Award — Culture & The Arts!"One of the best, and least expected, anthologies in decades.” —Joseph Bottum, ...

In his famed treatise Either/Or, Christian existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard suggests that our basic human condition is one of choice an...

Love Holds You is a collection of poetry and devotions from beloved author Christine Valters Paintner. Amid the daily grind, the pain and loss, the...

At the core of this collection are 30 poems inspired by the stories of kinship between saints and animals. They come mostly from the early Christia...

The poems in Dreaming of Stones are about what endures: hope and desire, changing seasons, wild places, love, and the wisdom of mystics. Inspired b...

"Steven has an Irish monk’s attentiveness to the fragility, mystery, and hidden beauties of things." —Peter Leithart, First ThingsThe book is a gat...

Winner of the 2023 Christianity Book Award — Culture & The Arts!"One of the best, and least expected, anthologies in decades.” —Joseph Bottum, ...

Luci Shaw is now 90 years old. The author of more than 35 collections of poetry and creative non-fiction over the last five decades, she describes ...

"Rejoice, readers, as you receive the generosity of Luci Shaw's 76 new grace-infused parable poems. Autobiography once more merges with theology as...

Learning about the ancient Jewish tradition of midrash, a rabbinic form of textual interpretation that seeks and imagines answers to unanswerable q...

"Glory in the Margins is a gift and a challenge: a collection that could be well-worn by pastors and prisoners, could be healing in both a hospital...