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An American modernist poet and life-long Presbyterian, Marianne Moore (1887-1972) was considered by many critics to be the nation’s greatest living poet in the mid-twentieth century. Moore's most famous poem is perhaps the one entitled Poetry, in which she hopes for poets who can produce "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." Poetry begins with the following stanza:

“I too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it,...

On March 18, 2021 staff from the Presbyterian Historical Society shared stories from the PHS collections that highlight the extraordinary work of women in the church.

Click below to hear Allison Davis talk about the In Her Own Right digitization project; Sonia Prescott share about Tillie Paul Tamaree, the first Native American woman elected as an elder in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S...