Twice a year we publish an extra issue of America dedicated to books and all things literary; one in planting season and one at harvest time.
Poetry
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Under Sail
To hear what sirens was Jesus Christ
nailed to a tree, unable to move?
Posted inArts & Culture, Features
Is this Christian poet Russia’s next Nobel laureate?
A profoundly Russian author, Olga Sedakova offers insights into Christian living for a worldwide audience.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Why Does Everyone Love Dante?
What is it about Dante that has made him not just immortal, but urgent and modern?
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Dana Gioia’s love letter to teachers and mentors
Dana Gioia’s new book is a love letter attesting to the illuminating and poetic moments of his education.
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
Túpac Shakur at 50: Remembering an underdog prophet
Túpac Shakur is widely recognized as a musical pioneer. On what would be his 50th birthday, it is time to recognize him as a prophet as well.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
The 2021 Foley Poetry Contest Winner: ‘Raising Mothers’
the sense of her knowing I have long been
motherless itself a mother to me
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
A New Orleans jazz hall and its history in the fight for Black freedom
In post-Civil War New Orleans, Creole leaders won elections and oversaw the desegregation of public schools, a short-lived experiment destroyed after Reconstruction.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Ecotheological river poetry and the funk-loving Jesus of the Deep South
In the poems of ‘Delta Tears,’ Philip Kolin blends ecotheology and Scripture with pleas for social justice.