HOSTED BY DR. STEPHEN SOURIS
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2023, 7:00 PM VIA ZOOM
CURRENT SERIES OF ONLINE MEETINGS: Sessions of Professor’s Corner in Summer and Fall 2023 will be devoted to ecopoetry, defined as poems about our relationship to nature and the environment. Reading selections are from The Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press, 2020), which consists of American poems from the mid-19th century to the present. Poems available online are linked.
POEMS FOR SEPTEMBER 25, 2023:
Poems to be discussed at this month’s meeting are the following:
Wallace Stevens, “Anecdote of the Jar”
Wallace Stevens, “The Snow Man”
James Dickey, “The Heaven of Animals”
Denise Levertov, “O Taste and See”
Denise Levertov, “Souvenir d’amitie”
Denise Levertov, “The Past III”
A. R. Ammons, “Corsons Inlet”
A. R. Ammons, “Gravelly Run”
A. R. Ammons, from “Garbage”
ZOOM INVITE is only available via the Denton Public Library’s Professor’s Corner mailing list. Please e-mail ProfessorsCornerDPL@gmail.com and ask to be added.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Contact the Professor’s Corner producer and discussion leader, Dr. Stephen Souris (Professor of English [Ret.], Texas Woman’s Univ.), at SSouris2002@yahoo.com.
This program is made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
