Anya Krugovoy Silver, poet, dies at age 49
“Making meaning out of suffering and loss,” Silver wrote, is “one of poetry’s most fundamental aims.”
Anya Krugovoy Silver
Anya Krugovoy Silver, whose searing poems about family, faith, and cancer appeared in the Christian Century, among other publications, died August 6 in Macon, Georgia. She was 49.
A 2018 Guggenheim Fellow for Poetry, she taught English literature at Mercer University. Among the four books of poetry she published are The Ninety-Third Name of God (2010) and Second Bloom (2017).
Her poems related to cancer and its treatment—the way it ravages a body, the relief that a Popsicle can bring—are intertwined with deep, honest questioning of God.
