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Article Poem | How to Live “Poor Mal, old pal, dead a decade now, / yet salt and sudden in your boots and gallons, / surveying this disastrous after” By Christian Wiman May 25, 2021 Poetry
Article Faith Comes Through Hearing “Some days, although we cannot pray—because we are too busy, or because we are in too much pain, or simply because the words will not come—a prayer utters itself.” By Christian Wiman November 15, 2020 The Last Word Spirituality Poetry
Article Poem | The Eft Any problem that can be solved with money / is not a problem. By Christian Wiman August 26, 2019 Poetry
Article Issues of Blood There is some one pain in the world to which every one of us is called to witness and perhaps ease By Christian Wiman March 14, 2018 Spirituality The Last Word
Article Poetry: Eight Distillations “He talked of nothingness until it wasn’t. / He bragged his gravity into God.” By Christian Wiman January 24, 2018 Poetry Spirituality
Article Poem | We Lived We lived in the long intolerable called God. / We seemed happy. // I don’t mean content I mean heroin happy, / donkey dentures... By Christian Wiman October 9, 2014 Poetry
