We live inside wide questions without question marks — looming, opaque umbrellas. Eliza Griswold’s searing “Prayer,” from “If Men, Then,” opens a book of inquiries into the hardest ...

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s associate poetry editor.

But Inaugural Day is first a time for celebration. For own my part, I offer a Poem, a Prayer, and a Promise: The Poem I wrote in the euphoric days immediately following the November election.

I recite both” Kaddish,” the Jewish prayer of praise and I read Ginsberg’s poem for a mother who was not prayed over at her funeral, and I hold in my heart the tens of thousands dead and dying.

She shared the poem alongside two photos of her young son. Alicia Keys shared a sweet poem reflecting on her 5-year-old son's future amid the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests. On Instagram ...

In a post for The Daily Beast, Clooney wrote a short poem that reads as a prayer for the United States: I pray for my country. I pray that we can find more that unites us than divides us.

I had found, during earlier crises, that the rhythm of poetry can soothe my anxieties. With just a word or a phrase, a poem can reach the hidden places that prayers or well-meaning advice cannot.

Two of the happiest years of my life were spent as a stay-at-home dad when our son, Isaiah, was a toddler. The morning of Sept. 11, 2001, began like most of our days with a meandering walk around ...

Without a field or stage to stand on, outspoken actor and director George Clooney has penned a poem titled “Prayer for our Country” to explain why he chooses to (figuratively) kneel.

Yu Bing, a reporter with ChinaAid, disseminated the poem. “Pastor Wang wrote the poem, Miss my Son, based on the 90th poem in 100 Palace Poems by Wang Jian, a poet in the Tang Dynasty.” ...

Opinion Poems offered me an anchor as I lost my son, so I shared them May 24, 2023 More than 2 years ago 8 min (Eleanor Davis for The Washington Post) ...