Books and Poetry

Poetry and the Trinity

A reflection for the Sunday of the Word of God.

Jan 25 • Tomorrow's American Catholic

Breathe Christ Always by Michael Centore

On Nicholas Worssam's "In the Stillness, Waiting: Christian Origins of the Prayer of the Heart"

Jan 15 • Tomorrow's American Catholic

Iconophile by John Zedolik

"Saint Francis freezing in his concrete skin / and within, no birds to shoulder and share . . ."

Nov 9, 2025 • Tomorrow's American Catholic

A Poem by Jeannine M. Pitas

"There’s a need to find the point where Life 1 and Life 2 intersect."

Oct 3, 2025 • Tomorrow's American Catholic

A Poem by Gerard Garrigan, OSB

"Nothing in this broken world can last / As long, even half as long, as the past . . ."

Sep 12, 2025 • Tomorrow's American Catholic

"From the Death of Mary" by Rainer Maria Rilke

A selection from Rilke's "Marienleben" sequence of poems on the life of Mary, translated by Wally Swist.

Aug 28, 2025 • Tomorrow's American Catholic

Three Poems by Johanna Caton, O.S.B.

"warm, honey-air and fresh / sap, smaller than a sip, linger – / a tiny communion / tiny communion."

Jul 4, 2025 • Tomorrow's American Catholic

The Fruits of Contemplation by Charles W. Dahm, O.P.

Philip Kolin’s poems help us look at life differently and understand in new ways the realities we often take for granted.

Jun 17, 2025 • Tomorrow's American Catholic

Poems and Prayers for Wounded Healers by O'Neill D'Cruz

"One Spirit kindles all matter with a spark / And Nature bears, or forbears with a mark . . ."

May 16, 2025 • Tomorrow's American Catholic

"The World Will Be Saved by Beauty" by Michael Centore

Two new graphic novels document the complementary lives of Dorothy Day and Arvo Pärt.

Feb 25, 2025 • Tomorrow's American Catholic

Rewriting the Rule by Julie A. Ferraro

Exploring the practical spirituality of an earlier, and sometimes overlooked, version of the Franciscan Rule.

Oct 30, 2024 • Tomorrow's American Catholic

"There Is No Other Way to Say This": Andrew Kaufman's Rwanda Poems by Michael Centore

A new collection recovers the human beings behind the horrific facts of the genocide.

Jul 30, 2024 • Tomorrow's American Catholic

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