POSTPONED (Reschedule Date TBD)

Due to concerns regarding COVID-19

LOGOS welcomes two renowned poet-theologians for an exploration of faith, meaning and the atoning power of poems.

---

Christian Wiman is the author, editor, or translator of ten books, including Hammer is the Prayer: Selected Poems (FSG, 2016), My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer (FSG, 2013), and Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam (HarperCollins/Ecco, 2012). He has been a Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford and a visiting assistant professor of English at Northwestern, and for three years he served as Visiting Scholar at Lynchburg College in Virginia. From 2003 until 2013 he was the editor of Poetry magazine. Wiman has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the Atlantic Monthly, and numerous other publications. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow and holds an honorary doctorate of humane letters from North Central College. He is Professor of the Practice of Religion and Literature at Yale Divinity School.

---

Nate Klug is the author of Rude Woods, a modern translation of Virgil's Eclogues (The Song Cave, 2013), Anyone, a book of poems (The University of Chicago Press, 2015), and the forthcoming Hosts and Guests (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 2020). His writing has been supported by fellowships from the James Merrill House, the MacDowell Colony, and the Poetry Foundation. His poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, The New York Review of Books, The Threepenny Review, Boston Review and Image Journal. In 2010 Klug was awarded a Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation. A UCC-Congregationalist minister, he has served churches in North Guilford, CT; Grinnell, IA; and Redwood City, CA. He is Pastor at Arlington Community Church, United Church of Christ, in Kensington, CA, near Berkeley.