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Jerome Rothenberg, a poet, translator, and anthologist "whose efforts to bring English-language readers into contact with creative traditions far outside the Western establishment--a field he called ethnopoetics--had an enormous impact on world literature and made him a hero to rock musicians like Nick Cave, Jim Morrison and Warren Zevon," died April 21 at age 92, the New York Times <https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/05/books/jerome-rothenberg-dead.html> reported. Rothenberg presen...

As your family gathers to celebrate the Nativity, consider reciting "The Burning Babe," a beautiful and deeply meaningful poem by Saint Robert Southwell.

Denise Levertov’s intuitive grasp of incarnation drove her politics, her poetry, and eventually her religious...