Like a hymn hummed in the dark, or a sonnet scribbled in the margins—poetry that listens as much as it speaks.

Welcome to the work of Mischa Willett.

“Astonishing” - Scott Cairns

“Astonishing” - Scott Cairns

"Brilliant, and I don't often use the word brilliant."- Lee Rossi

"Brilliant, and I don't often use the word brilliant."- Lee Rossi

" A beautiful book in every way" -Leland Ryken

" A beautiful book in every way" -Leland Ryken

The Elegy Beta

In The Elegy Beta, Mischa Willett offers a collection of poems that stare into the mysteries surrounding angels—beings of light, fierce protectors, silent witnesses to our lives and history. This work invites readers to examine the intersections of the divine and the everyday, revealing the enigmatic angelic in our own joys, struggles, and reflections.

The Elegy Beta is available in paperback, hardcover, or e-book.

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Toward a Resurection Aesthetic

He practiced jumping, getting big, breaking some bricks with his head. And then he fell down one of those mine shafts they have everywhere and died…

“But you have another life,” I said. “Look at those hearts.”

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Between the Joints and the Marrow by Garrett Soucy

There isn’t anything affected in either Garrett Soucy’s singing voice or his literary style. Both are spare as a cabin in the Maine woods, a cast iron stove in the corner for heat, but also for hardness. Sometimes when walking, one comes upon the remnants of such a place, a chimney that has out-lasted its house. That’s these poems: compelling, comfortable, and classic as brick.

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Six Christian Poetry Anthologies Worth Reading

When a particular mode of production, or of concern, reaches certain thresholds, or when public taste shifts palpably enough, artifacts attesting to it arise to delineate its contours. Often this happens around the turn of the century, or when a major figure dies

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An Evening over Shared Affection: Poetry Books Not to Miss

Eventually, we’d get around to the question “have you read anything good recently?” And that's when our cartridge needles would settle into our respective grooves and things would really start swinging.

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