Oct 18, 2022
The Catholic Tradition Podcast Community sponsored a poetry studying
session on the fourth biennial Catholic Creativeness Convention,
hosted by the College of Dallas. Thomas Mirus moderated this
session on Sept. 30, 2022, introducing poets Paul Mariani,
Frederick Turner, and James Matthew Wilson.
Paul Mariani, College Professor Emeritus at Boston School,
is the creator of twenty-two books, together with biographies of William
Carlos Williams, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Hart Crane, Gerard
Manley Hopkins, and Wallace Stevens. He has printed 9 volumes
of poetry, most just lately All that Might be New, from Slant. He has
additionally written two memoirs, Thirty Days and The Thriller of It All:
The Vocation of Poetry within the Twilight of Modernism. His awards
embody fellowships from the Guggenheim Basis, the NEA and
NEH. He’s the recipient of the John Ciardi Award for Lifetime
Achievement in Poetry and the Flannery O’Connor Lifetime
Achievement Award. His poetry has appeared in quite a few anthologies
and magazines, together with Picture, Poetry, Presence, The Agni Evaluation,
First Issues, The New England Evaluation, The Hudson Evaluation,
Tri-Quarterly, The Massachusetts Evaluation, and The New Criterion.
Frederick Turner, Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities
(emeritus) on the College of Texas at Dallas, was educated at
Oxford College. A poet, critic, translator, thinker, and
former editor of The Kenyon Evaluation, he has authored over 40 books,
together with The Tradition of Hope, Genesis: An Epic Poem, Shakespeare’s
Twenty-First Century Economics, Pure Faith, and most just lately
Latter Days, with Colosseum Books. He has co-published a number of
volumes of Hungarian and German poetry in translation, together with
Goethe’s Faust, Half One. He has been nominated internationally
over 40 instances for the Nobel Prize for Literature and translated
into over a dozen languages.
James Matthew Wilson is Cullen Basis Chair of English
Literature and Founding Director of the MFA program in Inventive
Writing on the College of Saint Thomas, in Houston. He serves
additionally as Poet-in-Residence of the Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred
Music and Divine Worship, as Editor of Colosseum Books, and Poetry
Editor of Fashionable Age journal. He’s the creator of twelve books,
together with The Strangeness of the Good. His work has received the Hiett
Prize, the Parnassus Prize, the Lionel Basney Award (twice), and
the Catholic Media E-book Award for Poetry.
