Salon
A RiverArts Salon is a (virtual) place to learn something new, share ideas, explore interesting topics, see and be seen, and have fun.
Tuesdays from 5 - 5:45, on Zoom
Poet, Professor, and Director of the Rose O'Neill Literary House at Washington College Dr. James A. Hall returned to the RiverArts Salon for another wonderful exploration of poetry, this time of three poems by the Nobel Laureate Louise Glück. The poems are exquisite and led to another first-rate Salon discussion!
Louise Glück: America's Nobel Laureate:
In 2020, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Louise Glück, a poet who published her first collection in 1968 when she was in her mid-twenties. In its citation, the Nobel Committee marked Glück's accessible language, her urgent voice, and her use of biting wit and humor. We'll talk about these characteristics--and perhaps more!--in looking at three poems by America's most recent Nobel Laureate.
Click to read the Nobel citation (with brief overview of her work)
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James Allen Hall's first book of poems, Now You're the Enemy (University of Arkansas, 2008), won awards from Lambda Literary, the Texas Institute, and the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His second book of poetry, Romantic Comedy, won the 2020 Levis Prize and will be published by Four Way Books in 2023. He is also the author of a book of lyric essays, I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2017). He is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Maryland State Arts Council. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Georgia Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, New England Review, and elsewhere. He teaches at Washington College, where he directs the Rose O'Neill Literary House.
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