Professor Alan Helms and Rev. Kim K. Crawford Harvie
Seven Wednesday evenings (you are invited to join us at as many as you can!):
January 10, 17, 24, 31; February 7, 14, and 21 6:00 - 7:30, Frothingham Library
--Wallace Stevens
What did Alexander the Great never travel without, Charles I carry to his
beheading, and Jefferson prize more than his presidency?
Poetry, of course! Until World War, II, it was always "poetry, of course," but in
recent years the art has fallen on hard times. What a shame, but lucky us!
The goal of this salon series is to demystify poetry by helping us become adept
readers of different kinds of poems (sonnet, lyric, ballad, haiku, etc.) from
different periods and cultures. We'll learn a basic critical vocabulary that
will help in analyzing poems and talking about how they're made,
hence why they're good or bad.
Occasional exercises will be designed to instruct with delight! An incidental
reward of this salon will be our own enhanced mastery of the language.