Poetry

Five Poems to Read on Veteran's Day

In Flanders Fields by John Mccrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the...

Rediscover Poetic Enchantment with Charles Taylor

Jul 25

Rediscover Poetic Enchantment with Charles Taylor

Philosopher Charles Taylor's sweeping panorama of the longings for the transcendent reflected in the poetry of the past several centuries.

Jul 4

LITURGY

A Liturgy for Feasting with Friends

This liturgy is taken from Every Moment Holy Volume 1 from Rabbit Room Press . You can find more liturgies like these at...

Jun 25

Word Made Fresh

by Abram Van Engen Poetry fills the Bible. It spills from column to column and page to page. It covers one-third of the entire Old...

Announcing Merlin's Isle: An Arthuriad by Malcolm Guite

Jun 17

Announcing Merlin's Isle: An Arthuriad by Malcolm Guite

And so the tale came down the years In every land and tongue. And old folk told it through their tears And gave it to the young. And even...

May 20

Poetry's Mad Instead

"Art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony.”

Feb 26

A Conversation with Poet Scott Cairns

Ben Palpant interviews the poet Scott Cairns about his poetry, his process, and the way his love for life comes through in his work.

Two Classic Poems for Christmas from Eliot and Chesterton

Dec 21, 2023

Two Classic Poems for Christmas from Eliot and Chesterton

Find some time this week to make a cup of tea, put on the Advent playlist, and read these two classic poems.

Dec 11, 2023

How Do You Find Time to Write Poetry?

Each week on the Poetry Substack, the Rabbit Room publishes work from poets in the community. The poems are chosen from hundreds of...

A Guide to Finally Understanding T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets (Audio Lecture)

Nov 13, 2023

A Guide to Finally Understanding T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets (Audio Lecture)

A guide to understanding one of the greatest Christian poems ever written.

The Discipline of Hope: An Interview with Dawn Morrow

Aug 9, 2023

The Discipline of Hope: An Interview with Dawn Morrow

Earlier this year, I read and loved Dawn Morrow’s poetry book The Habit of Hope. The poems are profound and honest in a way that’s easily...

Jun 30, 2023

Snowmelt to Roots

November of last year, with autumn awakening in me again the desire to write, I set myself the task of fifteen songs and fifty poems. Any...

Jun 8, 2023

Do Not Despair

I’m guessing that many of you may feel like I do a lot these days when you look at the news—both angry yet impotent to do much of...

Video: The Goodness of the Lord in the Land of the Living

Apr 3, 2023

Video: The Goodness of the Lord in the Land of the Living

by Bailey McGee Leslie Bustard is one of those people who is just easy to love. That much became evident when the idea for this video...

Meditating on the Coming of Christ: A Trilogy of Advent Tanka Poems

Dec 19, 2022

Meditating on the Coming of Christ: A Trilogy of Advent Tanka Poems

Tanka is a cousin to the popular poetic form of the haiku. The word tanka translates to short song. Originating in medieval Japan, it is...

Hearing Scripture Anew, In a Chorus of Poetic Voices

Nov 2, 2022

Hearing Scripture Anew, In a Chorus of Poetic Voices

by C. Christopher Smith Poetry helps us see things in a new light. Whether the subject of a poem is a thing, an experience, an emotion,...

Oct 10, 2022

The Habit of Hope

by Dawn Morrow On most weekend afternoons the year I turned seven, you could find me in my room pacing the purple shag rug while a...

Sep 28, 2022

She Slays in Mysterious Ways

The Faerie Queene is an epic poem written by Edmund Spenser in the late 1500s. This pioneering work of world-building inspired writers...

Piers Plowman and the Possibilities of Poetry

Aug 15, 2022