Faith in Poetry

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 26, 2023

As National Poetry Month winds down and in this month of major religious holidays, Jennifer Michael Hecht, poet, historian, and the author of several books, including Doubt, and her latest, The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), offers poems as an answer for those for whom religion doesn't provide answers, solace or joy.

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