October 18, 2022
The Catholic Cultural Podcast Network sponsored a poetry reading session at the University of Dallas’ fourth biennial Catholic Imagination Conference. Thomas Milas moderated the session on September 30, 2022, and introduced poets Paul Mariani, Frederick Turner, and James Matthew Wilson.
Paul Mariani is Professor Emeritus at Boston University and the author of 22 books, including biographies of William Carlos Williams, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Hart Crane, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Wallace Stevens. He has published nine books of poetry, his most recent being All that Will be New, published by Slant, and has also written two memoirs, Thirty Days and The Mystery of It All: The Vocation of Poetry in the Twilight of Modernism. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, and the NEH. He is a recipient of the John Chardy Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poets 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 is Founding Professor of Arts and Humanities (Emeritus) at the University of Texas at Dallas and was educated at Oxford University. A poet, critic, translator, philosopher, and former editor of the Kenyon Review, he has written more than 40 books, including The Culture of Hope, Genesis: An Epic Poem, Shakespeare’s Twenty-First Century Economics, Natural Religion, and most recently Latter Days, published by Colosseum Books. He has co-published several translations of Hungarian and German poetry, including Goethe’s Faust Part I. He has been nominated internationally for the Nobel Prize in Literature more than 40 times, and his work has been translated into more than a dozen languages.
James Matthew Wilson is the Cullen Chair of English Literature at the University of St. Thomas in Houston and founding director of the university’s MA in Creative Writing program. He is also poet in residence at the Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Worship, editor of Colosseum Books, and poetry editor of Modern Age magazine. He is the author of twelve books, including The Strangeness of the Good. His work has won the Hiett Prize, the Parnassus Prize, the Lionel Basny Prize (twice), and the Catholic Media Book Award for Poetry.
