Critically acclaimed poet and essayist from the Pacific Northwest.

Director of the Whitworth Writers' Workshop MFA in Creative Writing. His poetry collections—Phases and The Elegy Beta—explore the intersection of faith, literature, and the life of the mind.

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The Habit w/ Jonathan Rogers

How can we equip a new generation of writers?

Group MFA Interview with Nadya Williams

I didn’t know what most of the words meant, nor had I any sense of the majestic realities beneath them, but the cadence lulled me like a song.

Gathers his Inheritance: Buechner on Houses and OZ

Frederick Buechner’s “Entrance to Porlock” is a meditation on the oddness of generosity, and on Coleridge, and flying houses.

Testimonials

  • DLJ on Willett

    "An absolutely distinctive voice, angular, refractory, often unsettling in flashes of psychological and spiritual insights...A remarkable volume."

    David Lyle Jeffrey

  • JKAS on Willett is best Christian poet

    "Dwell in the lilt of Willett's play. He's dead serious and death-defying."

    James K.A. Smith

  • BM TGC Willett Christian Poets

    "Displays the capacity of poetic language to remind us of the world--its everyday glory and profound peculiarity--that gets lost in the noise."

    Brett McCracken

  • Guite on best Anglican Poet Mischa Willett

    "Here is a striking and original collection which responds to both our biblical and poetic heritage with a fresh contemporary voice."

    Malcom Guite

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