October 18, 2022
The Catholic Culture Podcast Network sponsored a poetry reading session at the 4th Biennial Catholic Imagination Conference hosted by the University of Dallas. Thomas Millas moderated this session on September 30, 2022, and introduced poets Paul Mariani, Frederick Turner, and James Matthew Wilson.
Paul Mariani, professor emeritus at Boston University, is the author of 22 books, including biographies of William Carlos Williams, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Hart Crane, Gerald Manley Hopkins, and Wallace Stevens. He has published nine volumes of poetry, most recently All that Will be New, published by Slant. He has also written two memoirs, Thirty Days and The Mystery of It All: The Vocation of Poetry in the Twilight of Modernism. His awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEA, and NEH. He is the recipient of the John Chaldi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry and the Flannery O’Connor Lifetime Achievement Award. His poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including Image, Poetry, Presence, The Agni Review, First Things, The New England Review, The Hudson Review, Tri-Quarterly, The Massachusetts Review, and The New Criterion .
Frederick Turner, Founding Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas, was educated at the University of Oxford. A poet, critic, translator, philosopher, and former editor of the Kenyon Review, he is the author of The Culture of Hope, Genesis: The Epic, Shakespeare’s 21st Century Economics, Natural Religion, and He has written over 40 books, including his most recent work, “The latter”. Days with Colosseum Books. He has translated and co-published several volumes of Hungarian and German poetry, including Part 1 of Goethe’s Faust. He has been nominated internationally for the Nobel Prize in Literature more than 40 times and has been translated into more than a dozen languages.
James Matthew Wilson is Chair of the English Literature Department at the Cullen Foundation and Founding Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. He is also poet-in-residence at the Benedict XVI Institute of Sacred Music and Divine Worship, editor of Colosseum Books, and poetry editor of Modern Age magazine. He is the author of 12 books, including The Strangeness of the Good. His work has won the Hyett Award, the Parnassus Award, the Lionel Basny Award (twice), and the Catholic Media Book Award for Poetry.
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