James Matthew Wilson
@JMWSPT
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TFPPMA. Director of the MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Saint Thomas https://t.co/kKYOe0eHth
Joined July 2015
Learn more about the poetry of James Matthew Wilson in this short film. https://t.co/7vOIEPzTnU
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Narrator: this is not how writing is taught in the humanities
When I taught students in the sciences, I often told them to unlearn much of the writing they’d been taught in humanities courses since high school. That style is built to signal erudition - flaunting obscure vocabulary, esoteric Latin phrases, and unusual word orders to make the
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OK so the Bad Guys are right-wingers. And it has to be said: being an outright leftist is the safest thing you can do in academia and academic-adjacent work. I also wonder what politics @AntigoneJournal supports that desires for people to not exist (!)?
IT HAPPENED TO ME: I won a Classical Philology contest and was then seduced into far right ideology. Or far left. Uh. The bad guys. The bad guys want me to be a philologist.
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@WisebloodBooks exists through a combination of persistence and Providence. The persistence is one of the ways in which we work with Providence. Even when things have seemed overwhelming, impossible, or bleak, Wiseblood has tenaciously held onto the belief that there must be a
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In honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe, come join us, Archbishop Cordileone, composer Frank LaRocca, & poet James Matthew Wilson for a novena of reflections & Litany written in honor of her on @HallowApp @alexathallow
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#prayer #mary #guadalupe #jesus #world
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Join Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone and other special guests each day we pray a new Litany to Our Lady of Guadalupe. The Novena is in partnership with the Benedict XVI Institute and is also part of...
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp at the New York Times DealBook Summit: "What is the biggest problem in this culture? I'll tell you the biggest problem: no one believes the institutions are credible."
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I just finished earlier today the wonderful biography of #GerardManleyHopkins by my friend @MarianiPaul. I hope you enjoy this #poem by my friend #RachelHadas:
In this poem from the coming Winter 2026 issue of @NimrodJournal, Rachel Hadas turns to Gerard Manley Hopkins, who saw a fallen world and struggled “to make sense / with visionary innocence.”
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Join me to pray a special Novena for Our Lady of Guadalupe via Hallow with a beautiful new Litany composed by Benedict XVI Institute's poet-in-residence James Matthew Wilson. Starting tomorrow December 3: sign up at
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Clyde Wilson has a lovely review of David Middleton's poetry. I discovered Middleton after reading @JMWSPT's praise of him in @cworldreport.
Time Will Tell
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Join us at @stthomashouston for our extraordinary MFA program, our Summer Literary Series, or our FREE writers Weekend, the Summer Writers Institute.
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Comfort never looked this good. From chill mornings to late nights out — this sweatshirt’s got your back. Get it now 👉 https://t.co/k2oozr3Wcp
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This, my friends, is how good sausage gets made. Continuous, merciless grinding.
@JohnJackso84935 James’ rejections are truly special. No snark, they really are!
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If you're on the fence, you should go. I'm not going to say that going will help you get a publishable book, but I took sections of my manuscript to work on under some excellent tutelage, and wouldn't you know but it's getting published in 2026.
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Like most of us, rejection letters are a fact of life. Some express regret. Others give reasons (in my latest, it was a distaste for enjambment). James Matthew Wilson is different. He showed me flaws. He let me tinker. The result is the best poem I’ve ever written. Thank you JMW.
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Never, ever, ever let these people use even the fairest criticisms of Trump to make you forget how horrendously they lied to the country & mismanaged its governance. The American people were right to be aghast at the Democrats after 4 years of Biden.
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6⃣5⃣ lat temu na łamach @MiesiecznikZNAK ukazało się I wydanie dramatu Karola Wojtyły "Przed sklepem jubilera", opublikowane pod ps. "Andrzej Jawień". Sam autor nazwał utwór "medytacją o sakramencie małżeństwa przechodzącą chwilami w dramat". ⬇️
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Midnight thought: people are definitely getting stupider, including the people who decry that people are getting stupider.
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This kind of post really illustrates the ambiguity between genuine outrage and pure grift. If you live on twitter, you will only know what twitter tells you. If you claim authority and exercise influence, you should actually read things. My Lord.
I have just now learned that the entire “Hands up, don’t shoot!” line from the Michael Brown case was completely fabricated. It literally never happened. He never had his hands up. He never said “Don’t shoot.” The entire thing was a lie… …I had no idea
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"The First Sunday of Advent" from my book, "Some Permanent Things: Second Edition, Revised and Expanded."
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I regret to inform those of you who aren't in the know that most college-level essays are nowhere near being college-level essays.
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We shouldn't use AI to depict the Saints, let alone the Blessed Mother
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Really excited about our @JDVjournal festival May 15-16. And I would be delighted if you would consider supporting that endeavor and helping us to expand the page count of our quarterly journal. If you like poetry, bourbon, art, prayer, and the joy of the parochial, join us!
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