James Matthew Wilson
James Matthew Wilson is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions at Villanova University.
Articles by James Matthew Wilson
The Joy of Being Edwin Arlington Robinson
Every semester, on the first day of the poetry courses I teach, I hold up Lilla Cabot Perry’s portrait of Edwin Arlington Robinson and tell the students an only slightly…
Craft First
As part of my recent visit to Hillsdale College, where I read from my forthcoming book, The Violent and the Fallen, I gave a short interview to the campus paper,…
Michiganders Take Note: A Reading at Hillsdale College
As The Hillsdale Collegian announces, I shall be giving a reading from my two chapbooks of poetry at Hillsdale College this coming week. All persons of good will are welcome:…
Rod Dreher Praises The Violent and the Fallen
Last month, Rod Dreher discussed two of the poems from my forthcoming book, The Violent and the Fallen, on his blog at The American Conservative. Dreher writes, when I read these…
What You Need to Know About Yvor Winters
This is the first entry in FPR’s One Thousand Words series. Over the next few months, perhaps longer, several dozen contributors will tell us what we need to know about…
The Violent and the Fallen
I am pleased to announce that The Violent and the Fallen, the second book of poems by James Matthew Wilson, is now available for advance sale. You can order simply…
“Monogamish”: Marriage in the Age of Caucus Races
Berwyn, PA. While the American President is appearing on late-night television to tell the world -- and the Russians -- that a permissive attitude toward homosexual behavior is a matter…
What Would It Mean to Be a Catholic Writer?
Berwyn, PA. Randy Boyagoda, my old neighbor from the Catholic ghetto that grew up around the Studebaker mansion in South Bend, writes about the dearth of Catholic writers and artists…
Reading the Constitution in the Light of Russell Kirk
Berwyn, PA. Gerald Russello reflects on Russell Kirk's theory of the unwritten Constitutionone in a new essay published on the Liberty Fund's Liberty Forum. His essay is part of a…
On a Sculpture by Herbert Adams
For Adams and his peers the trade of art must have itself seemed an imported thing: threatening, rarified, and set apart like thorned peaks of the Swiss Alps rupturing above…
At Bar Harbor Once, And Once . . .
We scrambled up the craterous outcrop that ruptured like an isle in the gray sands spread thin around Cille inne Bay.
Gatsby for the Millennials
Berwyn, PA. I was a little surprised, not too long ago, to hear a student mention that The Great Gatsby was her favorite book. "Because it is the only book you…