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Free Talk: “The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art” with Poet Christian Wiman
November 2 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
freeThe newly re-launched COURAGE + FAITH SERIES invites you to a talk by poet, translator, editor, and essayist Christian Wiman. Using stories and poems, his own and others, Wiman will explore what the word “faith” means in these times, and what role art has in understanding that.” Book Signing and reception after the talk.
Christian Wiman has been called “America’s most important Christian writer” (The Dish) and “the greatest devotional poet writing in English” (Poetry). He has written a dozen books and now teaches at Yale Divinity School. From 2003 until 2013 he was the editor of Poetry magazine, the premiere magazine for poetry. Mr. Wiman has written for the New Yorker, Harper’s, the New York Times Book Review, the Atlantic Monthly, and numerous other publications. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow and holds two honorary doctorates.