Layers of the Christian Creative Vision, with poet, novelist, and editor Sally Thomas

Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast

Jan 08 2024 | 00:48:45

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Show Notes

We speak today with Sally Thomas about her 2020 poetry collection Motherland as well as her novel, Works of Mercy, published in 2022. A former guest on this podcast, she has published poetry, fiction, reviews, and essays in such venues as First Things, Plough Quarterly, and the New Yorker, and she co-edited, with Micah Mattix, the anthology Christian Poetry in America since 1940. Presently, she serves as Associate Poetry Editor for The New York Sun.

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