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- Sister Mariella Gable Series P...
Gorecki Auditorium
Wednesday, October 21 at 7:30pm - Sister Mariella Gable Series P...
TRC Fireside Lounge
Tuesday, October 20 at 4:15pm - Carol Connolly
Arts Center Lecture Hall
Wednesday, October 14 at 7:30pm - Language for a New Century
The Loft Literary Center
Friday, April 17 at 7:00pm - Language for a New Century
Gorecki 204 B
Thursday, April 16 at 7:30pm - Peace, Poetry and Politics
Minnesota Pubic Radio's UBS Forum
Friday, February 6 at 5:30pm - Peace, Poetry and Politics
Alumnae Hall
Thursday, February 5 at 6:00pm
Literary Arts Institute
Ellen Bryant Voigt is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006. Her poems have been selected for a Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry. Her new collection, The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song, is an indispensable book on the writer’s craft by ...one of America’s best and most influential poets and teachers. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate meaning. The Art of Syntax is this year's selection for the Sister Mariella Gable Series, an award given by the College of Saint Benedict for an important work of literature published by Graywolf Press.
Ellen Bryant Voigt will share her work at the College of Saint Benedict during her residency October 20-23, 2009.
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Ellen Bryant Voigt will share her work at the College of Saint Benedict during her residency October 20-23, 2009.
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...with Charles Baxter
Time:7:30PM Wednesday, October 21st
Location:Gorecki Auditorium
Literary Arts Institute
Ellen Bryant Voigt is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006. Her poems have been selected for a Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry. Her new collection, The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song, is an indispensable book on the writer’s craft by ...one of America’s best and most influential poets and teachers. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate meaning. The Art of Syntax is this year's selection for the Sister Mariella Gable Series, an award given by the College of Saint Benedict for an important work of literature published by Graywolf Press.
Ellen Bryant Voigt will share her work at the College of Saint Benedict during her residency October 20-23, 2009.
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Ellen Bryant Voigt will share her work at the College of Saint Benedict during her residency October 20-23, 2009.
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Time:4:15PM Tuesday, October 20th
Location:TRC Fireside Lounge
Literary Arts Institute
A gathering of hundreds of poets from various parts of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, America and elsewhere, some who are acclaimed worldwide and others who will be new to the reader. This book celebrates the artistic and cultural force flourishing today in the East. Seeking a response to 9/11, three editors, w...ho are poets and teachers of Asian-American descent, hoped to share an alternate vision of the new century in which words, not weapons, could define our civilization. Each section of the anthology is preceded by a personal essay from the editors that introduces the poetry and exhorts readers to examine their own identities in light of these powerful poems. In an age of violence and terrorism, often predicated by cultural ignorance, this anthology is a bod declaration of shared humanity and devotion to the transformative power of art.
Two of these editors, Ravi Shankar and Tina Chang will be reading from this anthology.Read More
Two of these editors, Ravi Shankar and Tina Chang will be reading from this anthology.Read More
Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
Time:7:00PM Friday, April 17th
Location:The Loft Literary Center
Literary Arts Institute A reading from the New Norton Anthology by Ravi Shankar and Tina Chang
Literary Arts Institute
A gathering of hundreds of poets from various parts of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, America and elsewhere, some who are acclaimed worldwide and others who will be new to the reader. This book celebrates the artistic and cultural force flourishing today in the East. Seeking a response to 9/11, three editors, w...ho are poets and teachers of Asian-American descent, hoped to share an alternate vision of the new century in which words, not weapons, could define our civilization. Each section of the anthology is preceded by a personal essay from the editors that introduces the poetry and exhorts readers to examine their own identities in light of these powerful poems. In an age of violence and terrorism, often predicated by cultural ignorance, this anthology is a bod declaration of shared humanity and devotion to the transformative power of art.
Two of these editors, Ravi Shankar and Tina Chang will be reading from this anthology.Read More
Two of these editors, Ravi Shankar and Tina Chang will be reading from this anthology.Read More
Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
Time:7:30PM Thursday, April 16th
Location:Gorecki 204 B
Literary Arts Institute Featuring writers Brenda Hillman, Fred Marchant and Nick Flynn, examining the ways that poetry might bear witness to injustice and suffering, and giving voice to conscience, protest, and the all-too-often muted desire for justice and peace.
Literary Arts Institute
“Peace, Poetry and Politics” examines the role of poetry as a form of social protest and as a means of calling for peace and justice. The program is sponsored by the Literary Arts Institute of the College of Saint Benedict and the Eugene McCarthy Center for Public Policy and Civic Engagement in collaboration with Grayw...olf Press. The program will feature three writers who will respond to the topic: Fred Marchant, a Graywolf poet and one of the first Marine officers honorably discharged as a CO during the Vietnam War; Brenda Hillman, a noted poet with seven books of poetry who is also an energetic activist with Code Pink; and Nick Flynn, also a Graywolf poet and memoirist who has just completed a new book exploring Abu Ghraib and torture.
The program will recall the poetry of protest in World War II and in Vietnam, highlighting Graywolf’s recent publication of a collection of poems by William Stafford titled Another World Instead. The book centers on Stafford’s experience as a conscientious objector during World War II. Eugene McCarthy, an alumnus of Saint John’s, was an admirer of Stafford; in fact, he read Stafford’s poems on the Senate floor and was able to recite the poems from memory. And McCarthy was himself a poet. We will use these past events and experiences as a means to illuminate the situation on the current war-fronts and to explore these questions: do words have any effect on a nation at war? Is the declaration of conscientious objection a public or private act? How does a nation imagine itself at war and can that imagination be enlarged or transformed?
The presentation with this lively group of writers will be on February 5, 2009, at 7:30 PM in the Alumnae Hall of the Haehn Campus Center at the College of St. Benedict. The event will be preceded by a reception starting at 6 PM.Read More
The program will recall the poetry of protest in World War II and in Vietnam, highlighting Graywolf’s recent publication of a collection of poems by William Stafford titled Another World Instead. The book centers on Stafford’s experience as a conscientious objector during World War II. Eugene McCarthy, an alumnus of Saint John’s, was an admirer of Stafford; in fact, he read Stafford’s poems on the Senate floor and was able to recite the poems from memory. And McCarthy was himself a poet. We will use these past events and experiences as a means to illuminate the situation on the current war-fronts and to explore these questions: do words have any effect on a nation at war? Is the declaration of conscientious objection a public or private act? How does a nation imagine itself at war and can that imagination be enlarged or transformed?
The presentation with this lively group of writers will be on February 5, 2009, at 7:30 PM in the Alumnae Hall of the Haehn Campus Center at the College of St. Benedict. The event will be preceded by a reception starting at 6 PM.Read More
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