The Conference on Christianity & Literature

Summer 2009, Volume 58, Issue 4

Special Issue: Christianity and Contemporary Poetry

From the Poetry Editor

Articles

Theopoetics: Process and Perspective
L. B. C. Keefe-Perry

The Earth as God’s Body: Incarnation as Communion in the Poetry of Mary Oliver
Todd Davis

The Realism of Helen Pinkerton
James Matthew Wilson

“A single liturgy”: Fanny Howe’s The Wedding Dress
Romana Huk

Special Features

Theology Descending: Franz Wright and Mary Karr in Conversation

Looking Backward, Looking Inward: Scott Cairns and Kathleen Norris in Conversation

Review Essays

The Poetry of Herbert Lomas
Janet McCann

The Commiserating Muse: Four Poets’ Treatments of Suffering and Grief
Chris Willerton

Book Reviews

Geoffrey Hill, Collected Critical Writings; Selected Poems
Emily Taylor Merriman

Robert Siegel, A Pentecost of Finches: New and Selected Poems
Paul J. Willis

Marie Howe, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time
David Shumate, The Floating Bridge
Katherine Bode-Lang

Barbara Crooker, Line Dance: Poems
Julie L. Moore

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, The Color of Light: Poems on Van Gogh’s Late Paintings
Paul J. Willis, Visiting Home
John Struloeff

Margo Swiss, ed., Poetry as Liturgy: An Anthology by Canadian Poets
Lynn R. Szabo

Brad Davis, Though War Break Out; Song of the Drunkards; No Vile Thing; Like Those Who Dream
Brett Foster

K. A. Hays, Dear Apocalypse
Daniel Story

Poetry

In the Pocket of Your Winter Coat
Man as Walnut
Susanna Childress

Minersville Diner
Marjorie Maddox

Half in the Sun
Theodicy
Todd Davis

So There
The Virgin Spring
Mark Jarman

Why I Live Here
Robert Cording

Sunflower
The Man fron Eden
Jennifer Maier

After the War, the Orchards
Dehiscence
G. C. Waldrep

Sunday Calls
Chard deNiord

Scripture
Night Reading
Franz Wright

Aubade with the Presence of Eternal Irritation and Damnation
Aurora
Peter Cooley

Our Lady of the Milennium, Astoria, New York
Nicole Cooley

In the Congregational Basement
David Wagoner

Aunt Kate Considers the Family Vault
Insufficient, Ineligible Loss
Martha Serpas

Civic Center
The Knock on Your Door Disguised as a Sonnet
Jeanne Murray Walker

Opossum in Daylight
Shanna Powlus Wheeler

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In the Latest Issue of Christianity & Literature:


Night Reading

Franz Wright

Lights coming on
   in windows;
windows lit all
   night long
suddenly dark --

He seems to sleep,
   head nested
in crossed arms
on the desk,
   as he listens

to the first raindrops
striking the window,
the faint roar
   of aircraft just

vanishing with
   moonlit trail
past the horizon,
the underlined phrase.

      Summer 2009