Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Christian Wiman

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Chicago, IL
MacDowell Fellowships: 2002
More: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/christian-wiman
Christian Wiman is an American poet and editor. He graduated from Washington and Lee University and has taught at Northwestern University, Stanford University, Lynchburg College in Virginia, and the Prague School of Economics. In 2003, he became editor of the oldest American magazine of verse, Poetry, a role he stepped down from in June 2013. Wiman now teaches literature and religion at Yale University and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

Studios

Chapman

Christian Wiman worked in the Chapman studio.

Chapman Studio was funded by Mrs. Alice Woodrough Chapman in memory of her husband, composer George Alexander Chapman. Symmetrically massed, the building is stuccoed on the exterior with a natural, unpainted cement. Its unusual half-timbered ornament consists of slender, knotty spruce poles painted a dark green color. A central, peak-roofed entrance porch appears on the north side…

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