Vocal patterns of praise and occasional encomiums well up from those trained and tuned to Christian revelation, as Auden must have been. Poems written at the end of Auden’s life—he died in Vienna in ...

The expression of doubt can be a refreshing alternative to most contemporary poets’ disregard for issues of faith. For Christian Wiman, doubt has not quite solidified into unbelief, which means his ...

In his new anthology, Joy: 100 Poems, the writer Christian Wiman takes readers through the ostensible ordinariness of life and reveals the extraordinary. “We ate, and talked, and went to bed ...

Great Christian Poems Teach Priceless Lessons About Life I hope to live the life of virtue that great poetry inspires Raffaelo Sorbi, “Dante Meets Beatrice,” 1903 (photo: Public Domain) ...

Christian Wiman, a professor at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, collects such modernist attempts for us in a bracing book, Joy: 100 Poems.

As he demonstrates throughout “The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy,” a follow-up collection to his bestselling anthology “How to Love the World,” kindness can be life-altering.