Go Deeper

By happy coincidence, sitting on my desk this afternoon is Robert Royal's great book, A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century.  I have a few items to share here whereby you can go deeper into my work as a poet, should you be so inclined.  Scroll on down and see what there is to be discovered.

First, the Benedict XVI Institute has commissioned a series of short films about my work, the first one officially releasing today.

The new issue of First Things contains my poem, based on an ancient Christian prayer, "Elizabeth to her Cousin."  Click the FT icon to read.

My latest column for The Catholic Thing takes up the theme of the nature of art and the role and purpose of the artist.  It is appropriately called, "The Law of Art."  Click the TCT to read.

Finally, while I was back home at Notre Dame, last week, to conduct a public interview with the great filmmaker, Whit Stillman, I got to sit down for my own interview with Ken Hallenius on the De Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture Cast.  We chatted about poetry, the Midwest, Catholicism, and concluded with a reading of the seventh part of my long poem, The River of the Immaculate Conception​.  Click the CEC to listen.

If you have not gone too deep for your tastes already into the world of James Matthew Wilson, then why not click the book cover at left, and pick up your own copy of The River of the Immaculate Conception​?

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