When we think of an all-powerful God, we don’t think of a man led like a lamb to the slaughter. Yet that’s who Jesus is.

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

Harry Cluff on the debts owed by Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams & Rainer Maria Rilke to the painter.

For years, my friend’s father asked me to recount his childhood escape from the Nazis. Why did it take me this long?

The poems in "No ... who’d sell a good / cause at your door: mental hygiene, democracy / abroad, things even the hopeless hope for.") "What kind of girl’s a man of God? one of us asks, as ...