In the 2014 chapbook the “Catholic Imagination in Modern American Poetry,” distinguished poet and educator James Matthew Wilson celebrates that the “Catholic imagination” continues to inform and inspire American poetry.
Catholic poetry collection offers a new way to pray
World Poetry Day: Poems as prayer in different form
“We think of poems and solitary things, and yet they reside within us — quiet compasses of right orientation. In prayer, especially, they are knowing and comfortable friends.”
Advent themes in Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem ‘God’s Grandeur’
“As our souls look toward Christmas at the end of this Fourth Week of Advent, we prepare for [the] Incarnation, the inbreaking of the light of God into the darkness of our world.”
Catholic ‘Renaissance man’ offers insights on writing
Dana Gioia, former senior vice president of General Foods, brings together many of his thoughts about art, culture and Catholicism in a handsome volume of previously published essays, interviews and meditations.
As refugee child, she knew no English; now as teen, she’s poetry champ
Belise Nishimwe, born in a refugee camp in Tanzania, with the support the family received, is an inspiring expression of community and faith.