Henry King Stanford Distinguished Professors Lecture Series 2021-2022 with Dr. Stephanie Burt
Thursday, April 7, 2022 7pm
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https://humanities.as.miami.edu/public-programs/stanford-distinguished-professors/index.htmlPlease join us for The Henry King Stanford Distinguished Professors Lecture Series 2021-2022 with Prof. Stephanie Burt.
Great poems present intimate moments, intense feelings, ways to look back at the past--so we have often been asked to believe; poems express mixed feelings, lament what's gone, react to what cannot be helped. Yet much of our energy, much of the time, today, goes into imagining a better tomorrow or preparing for a worse one: working to make the world of tomorrow less racist, or less wasteful, or less dangerous, or less stressful, than the world of today. Can poems contribute to those efforts? How? Why? Which ones?
Stephanie Burt is a professor of English at Harvard University with interests in 20th and 21st century poetry; science fiction; literature and geography; contemporary writing; comics and graphic novels; literature; and other arts. Burt received a BA from Harvard University in 1994 and a PhD in English from Yale University in 2000. An accomplished writer, the following is a selection of her work: Advice from the Lights (2017); The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them (2016); Belmont Poems (2013); Close Calls With Nonsense: Reading New Poetry (2008); The Forms of Youth: Adolescence and 20th-Century Poetry (2007); Parallel Play (2006); editor, Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden (2005); “‘September 1, 1939 Revisited’ or, Poetry, Politics, and the Idea of the Public” (2003); Randall Jarrell and His Age (2002); and Popular Music (1999).
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