{"id":297391,"date":"2025-08-31T21:47:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T21:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/31\/the-catholic-culture-podcast-episode-57-river-of-the-immaculate-conception\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T21:47:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T21:47:51","slug":"the-catholic-culture-podcast-episode-57-river-of-the-immaculate-conception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/31\/the-catholic-culture-podcast-episode-57-river-of-the-immaculate-conception\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catholic Culture Podcast: Episode 57 &#8211; River of the Immaculate Conception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"date\">Dec 3, 2019<\/p>\n<p>James Matthew Wilson\u2019s new cycle of poems, <em>The River of the<br \/>\nImmaculate Conception<\/em>, is a reflection on the history of the<br \/>\nCatholic faith in the Americas, from Juan Diego to Elizabeth Ann<br \/>\nSeton. Its title is the name given to the Mississippi River by the<br \/>\nmissionary Fr. Marquette. James reads four of the seven poems,<br \/>\nexplains their relation to the recent Mass of the Americas which<br \/>\ninspired them, and discusses the challenges and delights of poetic<br \/>\nform.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Buy <em>The River of the Immaculate Conception<\/em> at Wiseblood<br \/>\nBooks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisebloodbooks.com\/store\/p96\/The_River_of_the_Immaculate_Conception.html\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.wisebloodbooks.com\/store\/p96\/The_River_of_the_Immaculate_Conception.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch the Mass of the Americas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GFoj3viHXnk\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GFoj3viHXnk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>JMW&#8217;s website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesmatthewwilson.com\/\">https:\/\/www.jamesmatthewwilson.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>JMW\u2019s recommended resources for aspiring<br \/>\npoets:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Colosseum Summer Institute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colosseuminstitute.com\/summer-institute.html?fbclid=IwAR24gknlRiJv5Poa1E4uWPvr4_m_nxs8fuA3W5bYiUHia35UKy_ctBrnbUc\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.colosseuminstitute.com\/summer-institute.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>James Matthew Wilson, <em>The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of<br \/>\nUnmaking<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisebloodbooks.com\/store\/p82\/The_Fortunes_of_Poetry_in_an_Age_of_Unmaking.html\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.wisebloodbooks.com\/store\/p82\/The_Fortunes_of_Poetry_in_an_Age_of_Unmaking.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>William Baer, <em>Writing Metrical Poetry: Contemporary Lessons<br \/>\nfor Mastering Traditional Forms<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Writing-Metrical-Poetry-Contemporary-Traditional\/dp\/1582974152\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Writing-Metrical-Poetry-Contemporary-Traditional\/dp\/1582974152<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Timothy Steele, <em>All the Fun\u2019s in How You Say a Thing: An<br \/>\nExplanation of Meter and Versification<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/All-Funs-How-Thing-Versification\/dp\/0821412604\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.amazon.com\/All-Funs-How-Thing-Versification\/dp\/0821412604<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This podcast is a production of CatholicCulture.org. If you like<br \/>\nthe show, please consider supporting us!<a href=\"http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio\">\u00a0http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n      var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n      if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n      js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n      js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.8&appId=834757889913083\";\n      fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicculturepodcast.libsyn.com\/episode-57-river-of-the-immaculate-conception-james-matthew-wilson\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 3, 2019 James Matthew Wilson\u2019s new cycle of poems, The River of the Immaculate Conception, is a reflection on the history of the Catholic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}