If the words “contemporary” and “Catholic” anywhere in proximity to the word “poetry” raise your eyebrows in alarm at thoughts of inaccessibility, little artistic merit or dubious faith, you may find yourself pleasantly surprised by this lecture. Dr. Miller reveals that a growing number of poets are responding to current efforts to bring to the public eye new poems of high artistic quality that are wholly “of our time” and yet situated firmly within the continuum of the rich artistic heritage of the Catholic faith. Dr. Mary Ann B. Miller is professor and chair of English at Caldwell University in Caldwell, NJ, a Catholic institution in the Dominican tradition. She is editor of St. Peter’s B-list: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints (Ave Maria Press, 2014), a collection of over 100 poems, written by 70 poets from across the USA, and founding editor of Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, an international annual print publication, in its third year of production. Visit www.catholicpoetryjournal.com.