In 'Requiem,' her fifth book, Virginia Konchan takes the sacred seriously. She’s jocular with her subjects, including God, yet in doing so she demonstrates sustained attention toward the divine. God is among her natural poetic vocabulary.

Two new books give a multi-hued portrait of Seamus Heaney as he pursued a late-20th-century vocation as a public advocate of poetry and as a somewhat private advocate of Catholicism as a folk culture.

These are poems that grip your heart, stretch your mind and startle your soul awake.

in 'Finding God Along the Way,' Christine Marie Eberle masterfully weaves together Scripture, poetry and Ignatian spirituality.

A.I. assistants are advertised as helping us speak more clearly and easily. But are they accomplishing the opposite?

In 'Cosmic Connections,' Charles Taylor focuses on how art, and poetry in particular, both expresses and responds to the unique human experience of “being modern.”