
Donovan McAbee
Poet and professor whose debut collection Holy the Body explores loss, grief, and embodied faith; reads from and discusses his poems throughout the episode.
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Apr 3, 2019 • 48min
“I Believe in God”
Donovan McAbee, associate professor of religion, poet, and Charles Simic scholar, brings literary and theological perspective. He explores Simic’s refugee-shaped imagery and the foreign feel of his English. Short readings and reflections probe poetic difficulty, apophatic longing, Christ imagery, and how grief and distance shape art.

Apr 8, 2026 • 57min
The Subtext: Everyone Hates Poetry
Donovan McAbee, poet and professor whose debut collection Holy the Body explores loss and embodied faith. He reads poems and discusses poetic uncertainty, caregiving and grief, purity culture and the body, and how formative events pushed him from certainty to doubt. Short, candid conversations about faith, shame, and why poems can hold what prose cannot.


