Nearly two decades ago, the poet Christian Wiman was diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma. Doctors told Wiman, who was 39 at the time, that he likely had five years to live. In the ensuing 19 years, ...

The challenge of measuring the commands of religious belief against the unavoidable state of mortality and suffering goes back at least as far as Job. For years the Yale theologian and poet Christian ...

“For decades there has been a premium on language as subject,” says poet Christian Wiman. But recently poets are “trying to find some way of speaking of ‘ultimate things’ with some sort of credibility ...

Christian Wiman says he's no longer afraid of dying. "When death hangs over you for a while, you start to forget about it," he says. Wiman's new... After 18 years living with cancer, a poet offers ...

The sin was his, Wiman confesses in his new book Zero at the Bone: 50 Entries Against Despair. Visiting his father and sister in a squalid motel “so close to the freeway you could touch the hum of the ...

Christian Wiman is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry and prose. He's been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and served as editor of POETRY magazine. Poet and ...