In the past, I’ve enjoyed lectures from notable poets like Marianne Boruch and Maurice Manning. This year the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College offers public readings by the following guest lecturers:
All lectures will be held in the Fellowship Hall behind the Chapel unless indicated otherwise.
Tuesday, January 4
MARIANNE BORUCH: The End Inside It
11:15amWednesday, January 5
KEVIN McILVOY: Sentencing & Summoning: Reflections on the Sentence and the Poetic Line
9:30amWednesday, January 5
ALAN SHAPIRO: Technique of Empathy: Free Indirect Style in Poetry
10:45amFriday, January 7
MICHAEL PARKER: Transvestite Hermaphrobite: All Hail the Semi-Colon
9:30amTuesday, January 11
STACEY D’ERASMO: On the Unsayable
9:30amTuesday, January 11
RICK BAROT: The Sea and the Zebra: Visual Effects in Poems
10:45amWednesday, January 12
DEAN BAKOPOULOS: Hot Dog Station! Show Show Show!: Expressionism, Exclamations, and the Lyricism of Upheaval
10:00amWednesday, January 12
MAURICE MANNING: Place and the Composition of Poetic Self
11:15am
Coffeehouse Junkie 