In the preface to Ryan Wilson and April Limner's anthology, Contemporary Catholic Poetry, Ryan writes, "One of the things human beings are always forgetting is that the world is greater than any individual's idea of it. The world is more complex, more manifold, more mysterious than any mortal mind can fully comprehend, as is the human individual." As Henry David Thoreau once wrote, "I've never met a man who was fully awake." Join me and Ryan Wilson as we discuss contemporary Catholic poetry and poetry's magnificent wake-up call.

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