From the Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Greenlights comes an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about ...

Much of Mark Wunderlich’s decidedly sincere and dexterous new book The Earth Avails derives, as well as extrapolates from a little leather volume of common prayers, a treasury of highly particular, ...

Most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. —Matthew Arnold, “The Study of Poetry” Prayers and poems share an uncanny family resemblance. In fact, they look ...

When asked to offer advice for aspiring poets, Harjo said listening is at the core of the art form. For her, poetry is about ...

A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior world, from the New York Times bestselling author of This Here Flesh and creator of Black Liturgies "A true ...

In her introduction to “A Hidden Light,” Susannah Heschel notes that Hasidism offers “teachings, texts, and stories… as guides” to the inner journey of transformation. This book, by Rabbi Zalman ...

Matthew McConaughey took the stage at Bass Concert Hall in Austin on Sunday and told the audience he was going to preach. The Academy Award winner, who shouted out his pastor in attendance, talked ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I traveled two hours to see Matthew McConaughey the poet perform in Brooklyn with a little help from his friend Jon Bon Jovi.

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 Philharmonia, ...