Christian Wiman’s most recent book is Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023).
Article Poem | The Dance "The day is done. / She is poured out like water / but still, in bed, talks her daughter / down on the telephone" By Christian Wiman October 22, 2024 Poetry Commonweal Centennial
Article The Poetry of Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton's poetry says: I have been almost crushed by this culture’s gargantuanism and idolatry of power. I will not play your game. By Christian Wiman December 8, 2023 Poetry Race History
Article The Bible as Poetry If you can’t read poetry, a great part of the Bible is going to remain closed to you. By Christian Wiman October 5, 2023 Theology Poetry Books
Article The Poetry of Reality In a revelatory Gwendolyn Brooks poem, God is actual: so woven into reality that the question of God’s own reality can’t meaningfully occur. By Christian Wiman May 23, 2023 Poetry Spirituality The Last Word Culture
Article Poem | D., Gardening “One fire further than the one in which we’ve burned” By Christian Wiman March 30, 2022 Poetry
Article Poem | I Remember Yesterday. The World Was So Young. “On the radio the scientist is speaking of other earths.” By Christian Wiman November 22, 2021 Poetry
