Favorite Poem Project
John Hildebidle
Wed Jan 7, Tue Jan 13, 07-10:00pm, 10-250
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
When he was Poet Laureate of the US, Robert Pinsky devised the "Favorite Poem Project," in which a wide variety of non-academic folks were invited to choose a poem that they especially liked, and then read it aloud into a video camera for showing on PBS. We will undertake our own local version. All members of the MIT community (staff, students, faculty, administration) should arrive on Wednesday Jan 7 to see a video of the Pinsky Project, and then return on Tuesday Jan 13, prepared to offer their reading. No entrance fee, no prescriptions as to size or character, no defense or elaboration called for. Just come, read, and listen.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/lit/www
Contact: John Hildebidle, 14N-434, x3-4452, jjhildeb@mit.edu
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Fellini's 8 1/2
Stephen Brophy
Wed Jan 21, Fri Jan 23, Wed Jan 28, Fri Jan 30, 02-05:00pm, 2-105
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Almost everyone who has watched Federico Fellini's "8 1/2" more than once agrees that it is one of the major texts of the 20th Century, one which demonstrates conclusively that cinema can represent subjective psychological states as well as, if differently than, print fictions. In this set of four three hour sessions, we will watch the film nearly three times. Straight through in the first session, selected sequences interspersed with discussion in the second and third, and straight through again in the last. A booklet of related readings will be distributed at the first section, and an e-mail to stephbr@mit.edu will be answered with a suggested bibliography.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/lit/www/iap.html
Contact: Stephen Brophy, 14N-407, x3-3581, stephbr@mit.edu
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How to Concentrate, Minor or Major in 21L Literature
John Hildebidle
Thu Jan 22, 04:30-06:00pm, 14E-304
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Considering Concentrating in Literature? Musing about Minoring in Literature? Mulling over Majoring in Literature? What do you do with a Literature degree, anyway? Come find out the answers to this and other fascinating philosophical questions. Meet Literature faculty and majors. Refreshments will be served.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/lit/www
Contact: Briony Keith, 14N-407, x3-3581, lit@mit.edu
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Pleasures of Poetry: Reading and Discussion of Memorable Poems
Literature Faculty, David Thorburn
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: none
Reading and discussion of major poems by members of the Literature Faculty (with help from their literary friends). Handouts of poems and series schedule available at each session, and from the Literature Headquarters, 14N-407, lit@mit.edu, 3-3581.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/lit/www/iap.html
Contact: Julie Saunders, 14N-407, x3-3581, lit@mit.edu
Walt Whitman
Stephen Tapscott
"From Drum Taps."
Mon Jan 5, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
John Keats
James Buzard
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Tue Jan 6, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Andrew Marvell
Howard Eiland
"To His Coy Mistress."
Wed Jan 7, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Robert Hayden
Helen Elaine Lee
several selections
Thu Jan 8, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
tba
Sarah Wright
tba
Fri Jan 9, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Rafael Campo
Stephen Pepper
several selections
Mon Jan 12, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
William Wordsworth
James Paradis
"Michael."
Tue Jan 13, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Ina Lipkowitz
"Pied Beauty," "Inversnaid," "The Windhover."
Wed Jan 14, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Galway Kinnell
David Thorburn
several selections
Thu Jan 15, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
James Merrill
Michael Arner
"Lost in Translation."
Fri Jan 16, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Wilfred Owen, William Butler Yeats
Anne Hudson
"Dulce et Decorum est" (Owen); "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" (Yeats).
Tue Jan 20, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Emily Dickinson, Denise Levertov
Liz Connors
"After Great Pain," and "Slant of Light"(Dickinson); The Dead Butterfly" and "O Taste and See" (Levertov).
Wed Jan 21, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Chaucer
Sue Delaney
"Merciless Beauty"
Thu Jan 22, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Maya Angelou
Andrea Walsh
"Song for the Old Ones," "Stil I Rise," "Elegy."
Fri Jan 23, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Tin Moe: Min Thu Wun: Sein-dakyaw-thu
Julian Wheatley
"Picking Crickets," "The Sky is the Limit": "The Pinya Stump": "Soldier's Letter."
Mon Jan 26, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
D.H. Lawrence
Elizabeth Fox
"Bavarian Gentians" and "Snake."
Tue Jan 27, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Anne Bradstreet
John Hildebidle
"A Letter to Her Husband...." and "Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House."
Wed Jan 28, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Roseanne Warren
Wyn Kelley
"Mud,""Portrait: Marriage"
Thu Jan 29, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Troubadours
James Cain
Two troubadour lyrics and translations.
Fri Jan 30, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
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