M. Willett 4/17/24 M. Willett 4/17/24

Rabbit Room Poetry with Ben Palpant

Any work that's taking chaos and ordering it is co-laboring with the Holy Spirit…

M. Willett 4/17/24 M. Willett 4/17/24

Let Go the Goat Podcast w/ Mike Rippy

The earliest stirrings of a literary response were hearing my mother read King James Bible.

M. Willett 1/16/24 M. Willett 1/16/24

Faith and Imagination Podcast w/ Matthew Wickman

It’s the realest thing that happens in my week.

M. Willett 11/16/23 M. Willett 11/16/23

Mercy is for the Weak

Losing everything in "The Merchant of Venice" and "The Karate Kid"

M. Willett 11/7/23 M. Willett 11/7/23

Transport

This is a quiet sort of poem, perhaps my favorite one to read aloud. It’s a poem about death, that last great transformation, and the ease and loveliness with which Christians are meant to approach it.

M. Willett 9/12/23 M. Willett 9/12/23

Why I Go to Church

Church is a lot of things for me: the center of my social and artistic life, the place I practice my actual talents, for music, for leadership—but I love it in part because I’m a weakling who can hardly stand to stand up most mornings and the church was made for, and needs, people like me.

M. Willett 4/12/23 M. Willett 4/12/23

Raven Steals the Sun

Being a myth, the raven story can change its contours with each telling, but so long as certain events take place, it remains the raven cycle. It is still itself, you might say, in whatever form it takes.

M. Willett 3/15/23 M. Willett 3/15/23

Dead Shall Rise

M. Willett 3/3/23 M. Willett 3/3/23

Oh Lord Through the Revolution

M. Willett 2/16/23 M. Willett 2/16/23

Psalms Too

M. Willett 12/9/22 M. Willett 12/9/22

Ambassador

M. Willett 12/8/22 M. Willett 12/8/22

A Testament of Witness by David Lyle Jeffrey

Readers will be staggered at how much scholarship and good humor, how much formal dexterity and easy cadence, they find in these poems. A Testament of Witnesses is startling, aloft, and all of it singing an otherworldly glory.