Before Time Could Change Them: A Reading of Cavafy's Poems
Theoharis C. Theoharis PhD, Associate in Comparative Literature, Harvard University, Nikolaos Mavridis
Thu Jan 13, 07-09:00pm, 1-246
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
A poetry reading night, in Greek and English, featuring a short introduction followed by selected poems.
Constantine P. Cavafy was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1863 and died there in 1933. Together with Seferis and Elytis he is is the most famous Greek poet of the modern period. His style is direct, intense, and poised, as is his stance toward those who have loved, who have lost, who have endured for beauty's sake, and honor's.
Contact: Nikolaos Mavridis, x3-3716, nmav@mit.edu
Sponsor: Hellenic Students' Association
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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
Sponsor: Literature
John Clare
Stephen Tapscott
"I Am", "Mary" and other poems.
Mon Jan 3, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Tennyson
Howard Eiland
"Ulysses"
Tue Jan 4, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Gerald Stern
Sarah Wright
Several selections.
Wed Jan 5, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Selected Psalms
Ben Lanckton
Several selections.
Thu Jan 6, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
T. S. Eliot
James Buzard
Several selections.
Fri Jan 7, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Sappho
James Cain
"To Anaktoria," "Seizure," "To Her Friend," "To Aphrodite"
Mon Jan 10, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Vladimire Mayakovsky / Boris Pasternak
Jordan Wirfs-Brock
"The Violin--A Little Bit Nervous" / "Winter's Night"
Tue Jan 11, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
W. B. Yeats
David Evett
"Adam's Curse," "The Circus Animals' Desertion"
Wed Jan 12, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Boye
Caterina Bjelkengren
"Of Course It Hurts," "Many Voices Speak"
Thu Jan 13, 01-02:00pm, 14N-417
Swenson
Jean Monahan
"The Woods at Night," "Blue"
Fri Jan 14, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Bob Dylan
Anne Hudson
"Mr. Tambourine Man," "It Ain't Me Babe," "Visions of Johanna"
Tue Jan 18, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Denise Levertov
Anthony Lioi
Several selections.
Wed Jan 19, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
From the Book of John
Amy McCreath
"John 1:1-18"
Thu Jan 20, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Wallace Stevens
Mahni Ghorashi
"Sunday Morning"
Fri Jan 21, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Michael Ryan
David Thorburn
Several selections.
Mon Jan 24, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Soldiers and War
Julian Wheatley
Poems from the Chinese and Burmese.
Tue Jan 25, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Barry Spacks
Stephen Pepper
Several selections.
Wed Jan 26, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Puritan Poems
Wyn Kelley
Several selections.
Thu Jan 27, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Keats
Noel Jackson
"Sleep and Poetry"
Fri Jan 28, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
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The 15th Annual Salute to Dr. Seuss
Henry Jenkins
Tue Jan 25, 07-10:00pm, 4-237
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Gather around, boys and girls of all ages, for a celebration of the sublime and wacky world of Doctor Seuss. You will hear Prof. Henry Jenkins read from his works and talk about Seuss's relationship to Modern Art and popular culture. We will also screen his remarkable live action feature film, 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. An MIT Tradition marches forward.
Contact: Henry Jenkins, 14N-205, x3-3068, henry3@mit.edu
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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