An Anselm House Partner Feature

released 4/11/2025

In January 2016, poet Christian Wiman read from his work at an Anselm House event. In this reading and talk, Wiman describes parts of his own faith journey and how his struggles worked themselves into his poems. He shares about the soil from which certain poems sprouted, both his own and those of Osip Mandelstam, whose poems he translated in Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam (EccoPress, 2012). Wiman discusses other poetic influences in his life and shares his belief that some poems can be “a kind of revelation that delivers you into a different kind of life.” Wiman is the author of several collections, including Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries against Despair (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2023), Joy: 100 Poems (Yale, 2019), and Every Riven Thing: Poems (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011).

This feature is provided courtesy of Anselm House.

40 minutes

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