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Micah Maddox joins us today.

He is, of course, poetry editor of our magazine here, first things,

and he's also a professor of English at Regent University. He's the author of The Soul is a

stranger in this world, and he's now the co-editor of a new book, Christian Poetry in America since

1940, an anthology with Sally Thomas.

This is our topic today. Welcome, Professor Maddox. Thank you for having me.

All right, quick question. Why start at 1940? No, no, no, I have another question. Are you an

administrator in the English department? No, not anymore. I gave that, that purgatory up, so.

You were chairman. That's right. Okay, the emails have gone down. Okay, yeah,

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