Poetry Reading & Book Signing: James Matthew Wilson

Enjoy a poetry reading and conversation with award-winning Christian poet and scholar James Matthew Wilson. Wilson is the Founding Director of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at the University of Saint Thomas, Houston. His work appears regularly in The Wall Street Journal, The New Criterion, National Review, and Dappled Things. He has published twelve books and is a two-time recipient of the Lionel Basney Award from the Conference for Christianity and Literature. Copies of his latest book, The Strangeness of the Good, as well as a limited-print broadside commissioned specially for this event, will be available for purchase and signing. Free and open to the public; coffee and cookies will be served. Sponsored by the Department of Humanities.