Tag: poetry

Roundtable events.

Saturday, February 23rd
2:30 - 4:30PM

Love, the Interrogative

In one of his novels, Milan Kundera suggested that “love is a continual interrogation.” What is this thing called love? Is it, as Shakespeare might have it, “the star to every wandering bark”? Or, in Bronzino’s words, “always a fountain and a vase of tears”?… read more »

Saturday, February 23rd
2:30 - 4:30PM

Love, the Interrogative

In one of his novels, Milan Kundera suggested that “love is a continual interrogation.” What is this thing called love? Is it, as Shakespeare might have it, “the star to every wandering bark”? Or, in Bronzino’s words, “always a fountain and a vase of tears”?… read more »

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Saturday, March 16th
2:00 - 3:30PM

Elizabeth Bishop: A Conversation about Her Poetry

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) is one of the great masters of American poetry of the 20th Century. Her remarkable gifts have been described in a variety of ways, but one gift repeatedly recognized by readers is her skill at recounting the results of her capacity for observation.… read more »

Saturday, March 16th
2:00 - 3:30PM

Elizabeth Bishop: A Conversation about Her Poetry

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) is one of the great masters of American poetry of the 20th Century. Her remarkable gifts have been described in a variety of ways, but one gift repeatedly recognized by readers is her skill at recounting the results of her capacity for observation.… read more »

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Saturday, June 14, 2014
2:00-3:30 pm

Responses: Poetry with Patrick Rosal and Jean Valentine

The “Responses” series at the Helix Center involves poets reading aloud each other’s poetry and commenting on those poems they’ve selected. For our first event in this series, we are fortunate to have two marvelous poets as participants: Patrick Rosal and Jean Valentine.… read more »

Saturday, June 14, 2014
2:00-3:30 pm

Responses: Poetry with Patrick Rosal and Jean Valentine

The “Responses” series at the Helix Center involves poets reading aloud each other’s poetry and commenting on those poems they’ve selected. For our first event in this series, we are fortunate to have two marvelous poets as participants: Patrick Rosal and Jean Valentine.… read more »

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Saturday, December 6, 2014
2:30-4:00 pm

French Surrealism: A Revolution of the Mind

French Surrealism is probably best known for its paintings–images of floppy watches or men in bowler hats and topcoats falling from the sky. But just as central to the movement was the poetry produced from the beginning by André Breton, Robert Desnos, Benjamin Péret, Louis Aragon, René Char, and a host of others.… read more »

Saturday, December 6, 2014
2:30-4:00 pm

French Surrealism: A Revolution of the Mind

French Surrealism is probably best known for its paintings–images of floppy watches or men in bowler hats and topcoats falling from the sky. But just as central to the movement was the poetry produced from the beginning by André Breton, Robert Desnos, Benjamin Péret, Louis Aragon, René Char, and a host of others.… read more »

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Saturday, November 18th, 2017 at 2:30pm

American Poetry Today

The American poet Ezra Pound proclaimed that “Poetry is news that stays news!” On a different note, his contemporary William Carlos Williams said that “It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.”… read more »

Saturday, November 18th, 2017 at 2:30pm

American Poetry Today

The American poet Ezra Pound proclaimed that “Poetry is news that stays news!” On a different note, his contemporary William Carlos Williams said that “It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.”… read more »

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The roundtable discusses the concept of touch as the core of sensation and sentience, exploring its scientific, philosophical, and poetic aspects.

March 9th, 2024 at 2:30PM

Touch as the Ur-Sense: From Presence to Poesy

The roundtable discusses the concept of touch as the core of sensation and sentience, exploring its scientific, philosophical, and poetic aspects.
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November 2nd, 2024 at 2:30PM

The Poetry of Aging

This roundtable brings together poets, psychoanalysts, critics and a translator to discuss the relationship between dementia and language, the impact of aging on reading and writing poetry, the distinction between lived experience and the lyrical, and the role of poetry in aging.

November 2nd, 2024 at 2:30PM

The Poetry of Aging

This roundtable brings together poets, psychoanalysts, critics and a translator to discuss the relationship between dementia and language, the impact of aging on reading and writing poetry, the distinction between lived experience and the lyrical, and the role of poetry in aging.
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