#17: Christian Wiman 2016

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Episode #17 of Rewrite Radio features Christian Wiman reading old and new work at the 2016 Festival of Faith & Writing. A poet, translator, editor, and essayist, Christian Wiman is the author of numerous books including the poetry collections Once in the West, Every Riven Thing, and The Long Home, and the essay collections My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer and Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet. He was the editor Poetry magazine for ten years and is currently on faculty at the Yale Divinity School. Jane Zwart introduced Christian at the 2016 Festival and join us to introduce the session on the podcast. Jane is a professor of English at Calvin College, co-director of the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing, and an accomplished poet herself, and we talked a little bit about what makes Wiman’s work so compelling. Many thanks to Jane Zwart. Learn more about the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing at ccfw.calvin.edu. Thanks also to Christian Wiman. A new collection of his poems spanning his career so far is out now titled the Hammer is the Prayer.