Today’s program is about the image or presence of God in poetry. That includes, more widely, the incorporation of “the gods,” the divine, the numinous and the transcendent as well. The program is not about what we might refer to as “religious poetry” as such – though, of course, the appearance or evocation of the divine in poetry can be linked to various religious traditions. Rather, it is about how the idea of the divine in poetry – however that sense of divinity is depicted - might, indeed, be a reflection of a deeper human need for “epiphany” and salvation and redemption on a human scale as well as on some more cosmic platform. The program provides a quick historical look at principal literary texts that incorporate that sense of the divine and ends with some poems from my book Cormorants.