The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels

Joshua Hren is founder and editor of Wiseblood Books and co-founder of the MFA in Creative Writing program at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. His books include the novel Infinite Regress and Contemplative Realism: A Theological-Aesthetical Manifesto.

Joshua Hren

A Communion of Pathless Solitudes: On Adam Nicolson’s “The Making of Poetry”

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn

Biography &amp; Autobiography

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

The Strudlhof Steps: The Depth of the Years

A Cartography of Redemption: On Heimito von Doderer’s “The Strudlhof Steps”

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Joshua Hren is founder and editor of Wiseblood Books and co-founder of the MFA in Creative Writing program at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. His books include the novel Infinite Regress and Contemplative Realism: A Theological-Aesthetical Manifesto.