Mahmoud Darwish
Because imaginative wonder.
Brenda Hillman
Because invention and beauty but even better a heart that bleeds and heals.
R. S. Thomas
Because creative theology and acknowledgment of anguish and understanding of evil.
Jane Kenyon
Because love belongs in her poems and her poems belong to themselves.
Rene Char
Because mystery sings.
Christopher Miles’ first book of poems, Armor & Ornament, was published this fall.