Ep. 81 - Love Like a Conflagration - Jane Greer

The Catholic Culture Podcast · Jul 17, 2020 · 1h 13m

From 1981 to 1993, Jane Greer edited Plains Poetry Journal, publishing poets who were reviving the traditional tools of "rhyme, meter, alliteration, assonance, painstaking attention to diction" which had been abandoned in favor of free verse. (These poets included names you will be familiar with from the Catholic scene today, such as Anthony Esolen and Mike Aquilina.) Then, as they say, life happened, and Greer didn't write a single poem for almost thirty years.

But God's ways are unpredictable. After three decades of silence, Greer was suddenly struck with a poem while sitting in a New…