Poet and essayist Carol Ann Davis (Fairfield University) joins Evan Rosa for a searching conversation on violence, childhood, and the moral discipline of attention in the aftermath of Sandy Hook. Reflecting on trauma, parenting, childhood, poetry, and faith, Davis resists tidy narratives and invites listeners to dwell with grief, healing, beauty, and pain without resolution. “I don’t believe life feels like beginnings, middles, and ends.” In this episode, Davis reflects on how lived trauma narrows attention, reshapes language, and unsettles conventional storytelling. Together they discuss poetry as dwelling rather than explanation, childhood and formation amid violence, image versus narrative, moral imagination, and the challenge of staying present to suffering. Episode Highlights “Nothing has happened at Hawley School. Please hear me. I have opened every door and seen your children.” “And that was what it is not to suffer. This is the not-suffering, happy-ending story.” “I’m...