First Things is pleased to host its 1st Annual Poetry Reading
with Christian Wiman and Danielle Chapman
Mr. Wiman and Ms. Chapman will read from a selection of their poems.
Where:
Central Presbyterian Church
593 Park Avenue, New York City (directions)
When:
Sunday, October 25th
6:30pm
Christian Wiman is Senior Lecturer in Religion and Literature at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, teaches at the Yale Divinity School, and was editor of Poetry Magazine from 2003 to 2013. He has published four books of poetry: Once In the West (FSG, 2014), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Every Riven Thing; Hard Night; and The Long Home (Nicholas Roerich Prize); a collection of essays, Ambition and Survival: On Becoming a Poet; and a memoir, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer (FSG, 2013). His translations of Osip Mendelstam are found in Stolen Air (Ecco, 2012).
Danielle Chapman is a poet, essayist, and Lecturer in English at Yale University. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation and many other publications. Delinquent Palaces, released by Northwestern University Press in April 2015, is her debut collection of poems. For several years, Danielle served as the Director of Literary Arts and Events for the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, where she created programs to serve Chicago’s writers, publishers, and literary community. She was also a consulting editor for The Poetry Foundation.
Christian Wiman and Danielle Chapman live in Hamden, CT, with their twin daughters.
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*General admission, no reserved seating. No tickets will be issued.*
