Literature and Spirituality: Christian Wiman

Event time: 
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 8:30am
Event description: 

 

Yale Literature and Spirituality Series

Christian Wiman, poet

Contemporary Poetry and the Language of Faith

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2012 | 12:30 PM
ISM GREAT HALL
409 PROSPECT STREET 
NEW HAVEN

Free; no tickets required


 

Christian Wiman is the author of three books, most recently a book of essays, Ambition and Survival:  Becoming a Poet.  His new book of poetry, Every Riven Thing, was publishedby Farrar, Straus and Giroux.  He is currently working on a book of theological and spiritual meditations called My Bright Abyss, sections of which have appeared in recent issues of The American Scholar, The Harvard Divinity Bulletin, The Christian Century, and Image.  He lives in Chicago, where he is the editor of Poetry Magazine.