According to one scholar, it has been called the “greatest Christian poem written in English.” That’s a debatable call but a position that one would well argue. It is certainly one of the ...

For Christian Wiman, doubt has not quite solidified into unbelief, which means his poems are saturated with the largest questions one can ask. A former editor of Poetry magazine, current professor of ...

Linking Isaac and Christ, Kolin writes, “One son saved; another saves all sons /. . . . wood for a sacrifice / but with thorns this time for a crown.” These poems are saturated with an earthly ...

Today’s poem, “Christ’s Nativity,” illustrates the posthumous influence of the Anglican poet-divine George Herbert (1593–1633) on his Welsh disciple Henry Vaughan (1621–1695). Vaughan was only twelve ...

Eliot’s work, both poetry and prose, although the poetry alone can be considered here, has a peculiar significance for the Christian, whether he be theologian, preacher, or layman, for Eliot has ...

In his new anthology, Joy: 100 Poems, the writer Christian Wiman takes readers through the ostensible ordinariness of life and reveals the extraordinary. “We ate, and talked, and went to bed ...

Every Riven Thing: Poems Christian Wiman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 112 pages, $24 “Come, ye philosophers who cry ‘All’s well,’ / And contemplate this ruin of a world,” wrote the French ...

Maya Angelou, who died in May 2014, became one of those figures (à la Mark Twain or Abraham Lincoln) who ended up with more of other people’s words attributed to her than words of her own.