The Conference on Christianity & Literature

MLA 2005

Lifetime Achievement Award

Presented to Wendell Berry

Book of the Year Award

Presented to Susannah Brietz Monta
Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England
Cambridge University Press

Lionel Basney Award for Outstanding Article in 2005 in Christianity and Literature

Presented to Phillip J. Donnelly, Assistant Professor of Literature at Baylor University
“Enthusiastic Poetry and Rationalized Christianity: The Poetic Theory of John Dennis”
54:2 (Winter 2005): 235-64.

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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