Lannan Foundation

Christian Wiman, Poet - Marfa, Spring 2008

Christian Wiman is the author of two books of poetry, The Long Home (Story Line Press, 1998), which won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, and most recently, Hard Night (Copper Canyon Press, 2005). His poems and essays appear widely in anthologies and magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Slate, The Threepenny Review and The New Criterion. He has received numerous fellowships and awards, including a Pushcart Prize and a Gerald Freund Grant from the Whiting Foundation. He is the editor of Poetry magazine and lives in Chicago.