Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove was recently given what may be the biggest honor -- and challenge -- of her career: sorting through poems from the last 100 years to create "The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry." Jeffrey Brown and Dove discuss the task that took more than four years.
When University of Virginia fourth-year students Allison Geller and Sarah Grigg took a workshop on the poetics of place with English professor Lisa Russ Spaar, they wrote about some unusual details on the Grounds. To mark National Poetry Month, two of their poems are presented below.
June 8, 2012 — As the Spanish explored the New World, a ship stopped in the Chesapeake Bay in 1561 and picked up a Native American youth, whom they took back to Spain. Baptized Don Luis de Velasco, he became an educated translator. In 1570, he accompanied a group of Jesuit priests back to his homeland, where the Spanish established a settlement, Axacán.
When a supply ship visited about 18 months later, the Spaniards found the village deserted, save for one survivor, a Creole youth named Alonso, who said that Don Luis, as he was called by the Spaniards, had murdered the priests.
Click the link below to hear Professor Andy Stuaffer and other expert readers discuss A. S. Byatt's Possession on the Diane Rehm Show:
Graduate student Camilla Ammirati's play "In the Ebb" is currently being performed at the New York International Fringe Festival.
For more information visit http://www.fringenyc.org/basic_page.php?ltr=I. The listing is below:
We are delighted to announce the very recent publication of the 4th edition of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics with Stephen Cushman as General Editor and Jahan Ramazani as Associate Editor:
Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English Paul Cantor's new book, The Invisible Hand in Pop Culture was recently reviewed in the Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732435200457813312316073617...
Paul Cantor, The Invisible Hand in Pop Culture
University Press of Kentucky: http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=2502
Lisa Russ Spaar, Vanitas, Rough
Persea Books: http://www.perseabooks.com/detail.php?bookID=100
Check out this great Q & A interview in UVA Today about Paul Cantor's new book:
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Saturday, August 27th
Join New Dominion for the release of Gregory Orr’s new poetry collection, Selected Books of the Beloved. This in-person event is ree and open to the public. For more than a decade, Gregory Orr has been writing toward “the Book:” an imagined tome containing every poem and song ever written. Drawing from a rich tradition of lyric poetry, Selected Books of the Beloved is the culmination of that project, and more—it is a celebration of the transformative power of poetry, and of our extraordinary capacity to feel and to love.
Friday, September 9th
Monday, September 19th
Thursday, October 13th
Friday, October 28th
https://ndbookshop.com/events/emily-ogden-on-not-knowing-in-conversation-with-brian-teare/
