POETRY

Wilson has published six volumes of poetry and more than two hundred poems in various magazines and journals.  His published work has been collected in Some Permanent Things Second Edition, Revised and Expanded (Wiseblood, 2018) and The Hanging God (Angelico, 2018), The River of the Immaculate Conception​ (Wiseblood, 2019), and The Strangeness of the Good (Angelico, 2020).​

Below you will find links to a small selection of his recent poems published in magazines.

Through the Water

Five Poems in Alabama Literary Review

To an Unborn Child

On Being Ill

The Prow of the House

"Let us tune our instruments"

The Weakness of Men

Waking in Dresden

On a Circus Elephant

Sloth

Saint Thomas and the Forbidden Birds
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The Feast of the Nativity

M.A.C.

Elizabeth to Her Cousin

On a Box of Rainbow Sprinkles

On the Shoals, a sequence of six poems

"Every Morning He Hallowed Himself"