The Catholic Imagination in 2022

by Jessica Hooten Wilson

The fourth Catholic Imagination Conference will be held at the University of Dallas, from September 30 until October 1. Continue Reading »

13 Sep 2022

“Majority” Revisited

by The Editors

Watch poet Dana Gioia recite “Majority,” a tribute to his son who died in infancy.  Continue Reading »

30 Aug 2017

The Gioia Effect

by Mark Bauerlein

If you have attended many poetry readings, you know how often they turn out to be flat and pedestrian affairs. A figure at the podium recites lines from compositions published and unpublished, and otherwise doesn’t have much to say. You hear a bit of biographical context for this or that specimen, . . . . Continue Reading »

19 Oct 2016

The Catholic Writer Today

by Dana Gioia

I For years I’ve pondered a cultural and social paradox that diminishes the vitality and diversity of the American arts. This cultural conundrum also reveals the intellectual retreat and creative inertia of American religious life. Stated simply, the paradox is that, although Roman Catholicism . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2013