During the forum on Pentecost, June 5, 2022, eight of these poems were presented by several volunteer readers, in the Parish Hall or via Zoom.
The request for readers:
If you would like to participate as a reader, please choose one or two from this list or suggest other poems.
The poem titles are links to web pages with the full text of the poems.
Please send a note including title(s) of poem(s) and poet(s) to:
amcathLearn@gmail.com
You can read either if you join the forum in the Parish Hall, or if you connect with Zoom.
A compilation, Modern and Contemporary Poets of Christian Faith, lists many other poets, and includes a bibliography: Poetry Collections and Scholarship Involving Christian Faith or Scripture.
In the table, the years listed are either the year of a collection, or the year of first publication, when available.
| Title / Link | Poet | Year | Collection / Series |
| Vespers (Even as you appeared to Moses, because) (one of 10 ‘Vespers’ by L.G.) | Louise Glück | 1993 | Wild Iris |
| i thank You God for most this amazing | E. E. Cummings | 1950 | Xaipe |
| Pentecost Translation to French with commentary | Derek Walcott | 1987 | The Arkansas Testament |
| An Hymn to Humanity | Phillis Wheatley | c. 1770 | The Poems of Phillis Wheatley |
| Cantar del Alma Station Island XI (translation by S.H.) | San Juan de la Cruz Seamus Heaney | 16th c. 1984 | Station Island (Heaney) |
| God’s Grandeur | Gerard Manley Hopkins | 1877 | As Kingfishers Catch Fire |
| Veni Creator | Czeslaw Milosz | 1961 | Collected Poems 1931-1987 |
| Whitsunday | George Herbert | 1633 | The Temple |
| Suddenly | R.S. Thomas | 1975 | Collected Poems 1945-90 |
| Our Mother-tongue Is Love; A Sonnet for Pentecost | Malcolm Guite | 2012 | Sounding the Seasons |
| Psalm 48: Magnus Dominus | Malcolm Guite | 2021 | David’s Crown: A Poetic Companion to the Psalms |
| Psalm 105: Confitemini Domino | Malcolm Guite | 2021 | David’s Crown: A Poetic Companion to the Psalms |
| The Fire | Franz Wright | 2006 | God’s Silence |
| To the Holy Spirit | Wendell Berry | 1980 | A Part |
| Can I see the buds that are swelling (Sabbaths 1999, I) | Wendell Berry | 1999 | This Day: Collected and New Sabbath Poems |
| Speaking in Tongues | Mary Rose O’Reilly | 2006 | Half Wild |
| Caedmon | Denise Levertov | 1985 | Breathing the Water |
| Little Gidding, movements IV-V | T.S. Eliot | 1942 | Four Quartets |
| Lightning | Mary Oliver | 1983 | American Primitive |
| From a Window | Christian Wiman | 2011 | Every Riven Thing |
| Pentecostal | Les Murray | 1974 | Lunch & Counter Lunch |
| Batter my heart, three-person’d God (HS 14) | John Donne | 1610 | Holy Sonnets, a collection of 19 sonnets |
| Hymne de Pentecôte | Pierre Emmanuel | ||
| Athalie, Scene 1, L. 1-12 | Jean Racine | ||
| Le Flambeau Vivant | Charles Baudelaire | 1861 | Les Fleurs du Mal |
| ДУХ СВЯТИЙ (Ukrainian, The Holy Spirit) | Alexander Voititsky (Олександр Войтицький) | 2013 | In the Light of the Word |
| Pentecost | Dana Gioia | 2003 | 99 Poems: New & Selected |
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