It’s not surprising, then, that Mary was raped by God. “Consent,” the writer claims, “isn’t really part of the story.” Except consent is not only part of the story — it’s the ...

Mary Oliver's Felicity (Penguin Press, $24.95), forthcoming next month, is a breezy, inviting collection of love poems that celebrates the divine as much as it does the natural world or human ...

The poems in Mary Jo Bang’s latest collection, “A Film in Which I Play Everyone,” are full of pleasure, color, sound and light — but also torment.