Charism and the Literary Imagination

Paul Mariani is the University Professor of English and holds a chair position in the English Department at Boston College. He has published over 200 essays and reviews and is the author of seventeen books, including five biographies, seven volumes of poetry, and a spiritual memoir. His awards include a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has lectured and read from his own work throughout the United States, as well as in Canada and Europe. His poems, which have been widely anthologized, have appeared in: Image, Poetry, America, Doubletake, The Kenyon Review, The Agni Review, New England Review, Crazyhorse, Southern Quarterly, The Hudson Review, Sundog, Tri-Quarterly, and The New Criterion.