A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse. By Elisa Gabbert I remember where I was when I first read two short poems. One, Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me ...

After his outstanding scholarly edition of the 1549, 1552, and 1662 Prayer Books, here is a remarkable successor. His text is challenging, informative, and even swashbuckling, by turns. His ...

This review has been updated. Mohammed Fairouz’s Symphony No. 3 “Poems and Prayers” is long, brash, overwrought, beatific — and huge. For its West Coast premiere Sunday night by UCLA’s ...

In her new book Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human, Cole Arthur Riley centers Black emotions, experiences, memories and bodies in every prayer, mantra and poem.