Introduction: An Unbearable Light L. S. Klatt Part 1 Tongues of Flame: Poetry and Revelation1 The White Shoes of the Evangelist: A Poetics of the Holy Spirit Bobby C. Rogers 2 Body-Hunger, God-Hunger, Soul Cake Lisa Russ Spaar 3 Shabby Equipment Aaron Belz 4 Listing Creation: Cosmogenesis in the Poem Peter O?Leary 5 Things That Are Not George David Clark Part 2 Brilliant Absence: Poetry and Possibility 6 What Is Possible Geoffrey Nutter 7 Pilgrimage to Elsewhere and the Empty Page Kiki Petrosino 8 A Tap at the Wall: A Poetics of the In-Between Karen An-hwei Lee 9 Downward to Darkness on Extended Wings: Practicing the Christian Art of Attention Kaethe Schwenn 10 Wound and Maze: Christian Mysticism and Poetry G. C. Waldrep 11 Logic of the Verb "To Be" Cate Lycurgus Part 3 Burning Questions: Poetry and Doubt 12 Wrestling the Angel: Faith as Poetic Process Josh Robbins 13 Holding the Dark, Darkening the Bright Carolina Ebeid 14 Body of Bodies: Poems, Trinities, and the Many Magdalenes Katie Didden 15 Living with God in the Twenty-First Century in the Worn-Out USA Maurice Manning Part 4 Holy Fire: Poetry and Vocation 16 To the Christian Poet John Poch 17 Fish in Sewer Water: The Common Enterprise of Christian Poets Lisa Ampleman 18 Hymn-Writing in/from/for a Faith Adam Tice 19 The Sentimentality Trap Benjamin Myers 20 Say Green, Say New: Language as a Renewable Resource L. S. Klatt.