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POETRY IN THE TIME OF FIRE Christian Wiman She had a vision of the vowels of doves floating like snow in a common dawn, not so much freed from gravity, she said, as in league with it, a...

The Bible and Poetry by Michael Edwards (October 2023)

BOOKS Fugitive Gleams CHRISTIAN WIMAN Over the years I’ve heard countless ministers, ministers-in-training, and even divinity-school professors tell me, often quite cheerfully, that they...

Gwendolyn Brooks (May 2023)

One Wants a Teller CHRISTIAN WIMAN I am beginning to despair And can see only two choices: Either go crazy or turn holy. —Adélia Prado, “Serenade” Sometimes the mystery of existence—that...

"D., Gardening" (April 2022)

POETRY D., GARDENING Christian Wiman One form of matter completed by grief. One psalm so utter its form is life. One fire further than the one in which we’ve burned. One...

'Drop a Notch the Sacred Shield' (July 2021)

CHRISTIAN WIMAN ‘Drop a Notch the Sacred Shield’ A poem that’s reducible to a message is not a good poem. A poem you can paraphrase in prose is not a good poem. I feel absurd repeating such...

â€œHow to Liveâ€ (June 2021)

POETRY HOW TO LIVE Christian Wiman A grudge of clouds, little spats of rain, afternoon an everywhere of seethe and haze as of some malocclusion in the brain until, crash, the downrush and...

Faith comes through hearing (November 2020)

LAST WORD Faith Comes Through Hearing CHRISTIAN WIMAN PRAYER Carol Ann Duffy Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer utters itself. So, a woman will lift her head from the sieve of her...

"The Eft" (September 2019)

THE EFT Christian Wiman Not nothingness but too many meanings as of a creature under siege. First the basement floods the first day of the year and instead of making love we make rage. Then...

Issues of Blood (March 2018)

LAST WORD Issues of Blood Christian Wiman My wife and I learned something strange recently about our already strange dog, Mack, the midsize black and white mutt we've had for almost a decade....

Eight Distillations (February 2018)

POETRY EIGHT DISTILLATIONS Apophatic He talked of nothingness until it wasn’t. He bragged his gravity into God. Convert What did he learn when he learned of his own bad heart? That scared and...

We lived (October 2014)

POEM WE LIVED by Christian Wiman We lived in the long intolerable called God. We seemed happy. I don’t mean content I mean heroin happy, donkey dentures, I mean drycleaned deacons expunging...

Two Poems (August 2014)

Two Poems by Christian Wiman PRAYER For all the pain passed down the genes or latent in the very grain of being; for the lordless mornings, the smear of spirit words intuit and...

Witness (May 2014)

Witness Typically cryptic, God said three weasels slipping electric over the rocks one current conducting them up the tree by the river in the woods in the country into which I walked away and...

Dying into Life (May 2012)

Dying into Life What Faith Reveals Christian Wiman In my early twenties I found myself reduced to living in a twenty-five-foot trailer in a tiny, dying town in far West Texas. There was a...

Wimsatt, Claire Hahn, Eugene C. Kennedy,Wilson C. McWilliams, James M. Mellard, Raymond A. Schroth,R

Wimsatt, John C Cort, George Devine, Margaret

Wimsatt, Margaret

Winaen, Damasus

Winans, Molly

Winchester, Anne Gorden

Windass, Stanley

Windeatt, Mary Fabyan

Windie, Bertram C. A.

Windle

Windle, Bertram C. A.

Windle, Bertram C.A.