Room 108, 1st Floor, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

James Matthew Wilson has published seven books, including three volumes of poetry, Four Verse Letters, The Violent and the Fallen, and, most recently, Some Permanent Things.  His book on the contemporary crisis and ancient philosophy of poetry, The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of Unmaking, has garnered extensive critical praises.  He had  published a new study of metaphysics and aesthetics, The Vision of the Soul: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in the Western Tradition.  He is an associate professor of philosophical-theology and literature, at Villanova University. 

Ryan Wilson’s work appears in periodicals such as First Things, Five Points, The Hopkins Review, The New Criterion, The Sewanee Review, and The Yale Review. His first book, The Stranger World, won the 2017 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and was published by Measure Press. Currently the editor of Literary Matters, he teaches at The Catholic University of America and lives with his wife in Baltimore.