Literature and Spirituality: Christian Wiman, poet

Event time: 
Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 1:15pm
Event description: 

Reading followed by a reception and book signing

Yale Institute of Sacred Music, 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 published by 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 ScholarThe Harvard Divinity BulletinThe Christian Century, and Image.  He lives in Chicago, where he is the editor of Poetry.