Tag Archives: Resurrection

“Come Out of Your Jail, Mary”

A W.R. Rodgers poem about Mary Magdalene’s “dawning” realization on Easter morning.

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Oliver: My Work Is Loving the World

in Mary Oliver’s “Messenger,” the poet provides insight into what it means to live forever.

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Ross Gay on Burial and Resurrection

Ross Gay’s “Burial” describes him using his father’s ashes as fertilizer for a plum tree, which becomes a way of freeing him to intermingle with nature.

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It’s Your Limbs He Comes to Fill

Mary Karr’s poem on the resurrection imagines Jesus longing for life and returning to fill us in turn.

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Ukraine: What Would Leo and Fyodor Do?

Dostoevsky and Tolstoy’s novels work as indictments of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Breaking Bread at Emmaus

Levertov says that seeing Jesus’s resurrection as no more than a metaphor is not enough for her. She requires a tangible miracle.

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Blazing Lilies, a Prayer Heard & Answered

Mary Oliver’s “Morning Poem” works as a fitting verse for Easter, with its vision of new creation–which for her occurs every day.

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Out of Black Ponds, Water Lillies

“Morning Poem” works as an Easter poem because every morning, as Oliver sees it, is a mini-resurrection.

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See, This Coal Has Touched Your Lips

The image of God touching the lips of Isaiah and Jeremiah shows up in C.S. Lewis’s “Voyage of the Dawn Treader.”

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