POETRY 2025

Things can be much more than things. Why do we love the things that we do? The old guitar, the champagne flutes, the miniature model car—and what h...

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...

A compelling, imagined dialogue with some of the most beloved Christian poets Step into a captivating poetic conversation that spans centuries. The...

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

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

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 ...

This collection of poems begins in the growing darkness of November, stretches through Advent and the seasons leading to Easter and to Pentecost, a...

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

The Chance of Home   Somewhere there must be where no one wonders whether you belong…   So begins the title poem of this remarkable collection fro...

Anaphora, the repetition of a word or phrase, draws our attention in new ways to the repeated term, and can lead us to moments of epiphany. In Euch...

“The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering, but a supernatural use for it.”...

From Saint Paul to Julian of Norwich, Scott Cairns has lovingly examined, pressed for the revelation, and set in verse the most memorable, beautifu...

 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...

A new collection from one of our favorite poets. Fourteen “Idiot Psalms,” surrounded by dozens of other poems, make this his most challenging colle...

One of America's finest living poets has breathed new life into the early Christian mystics. From Saint Paul to Julian of Norwich, the original tex...

Poet and literature professor Scott Cairns ran headlong into his midlife crisis — a fairly common experience among men nearing the age of fifty—whi...

Scott Cairns has carefully preserved every poem he’s ever published that he cares to preserve. He’s also added previously unpublished work, spannin...

This collection of poems engages in new and animating ways with one of the profoundest texts of our past, the Book of Psalms. These poems are Clark...

"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...

Winner of the 2020 Paraclete Poetry Prize, Litany of Flights is a luminous examination of the journey of the soul, from moments of loss to moments ...

A new collection from Sister Sharon Hunter, CJ celebrating the people and circumstances who help make us what we are. "For several months in 2020, ...

"These poems hear your broken heart and help you name your unshed tears.” —Ronald Rolheiser, author of Holy LongingPoems of pain and forgiveness, f...

Margaret B. Ingraham’s collection Exploring this Terrain bids the reader to join her in a journey of discovery. In a world in which speed is increa...

Kamienska came of age during the horrors of the Nazi occupation of Poland and lived under Communism. These experiences, as well as the sudden death...