William Woolfitt News Today

Lee University recently hosted the Literary Masterminds Bootcamp, an event for high school students who entered the Spark Writing Contest held by Lee. This event was hosted by Lee’s Department

"What the Beech Tree Knows," the arresting opening story of William Woolfitts collection "Ring of Earth," brings us into the "hiding room" of its narrators family secrets.

In one way or another, the poetry collections discussed here grapple with, revel in or simply bear witness to that which all great art wrestles with: What is going on, and (explicitly or not) what does God have to do with what is going on? Eleven different collections reviewed by four America editors are a sample of the God-haunted and the God-hunted literary artists who work out their spiritual, intellectual and emotional conundrums through lyrical compositions that both reveal and obscure, o...