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Literature

Mobile Milton Marathon (M3@MIT)
Diana Henderson
Wed Jan 28, 09am-09:30pm, mobile

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

Join the Mobile Milton Marathon (M3@MIT) as we take on the appropriately epic task of reading (and performing?) the entirety of John Milton's "Paradise Lost" in one extraordinary day! All listeners and volunteer readers welcome to come and go as they must, as we wend our way across appropriate spaces at MIT to share this masterpiece of English Literature with new audiences and old friends. The occasion marks the 400th birth of John Milton (Dec. 9th, 1608--but back then the New Year began with the spring) and unlike other such readings across the nation ours is peripatetic and invites multimedia
collaborations: very MIT!
Contact: Jamie Graham, 14N-407, x8-5629, jamiecg@mit.edu

Pleasures of Poetry
David Thorburn
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)

Reading and discussion of memorable poems led by Literature Section faculty and other MIT colleagues.

A packet containing all of the poems in the series is available from the Literature Office, 14N-407 and at http://lit.mit.edu.

This is being offered as both a for-credit and a not-for-credit course.
Web: http://lit.mit.edu/
Contact: Jamie Graham, 14N-407, x8-5629, jamiecg@mit.edu

Xiang Yu, Lui Bang, Li Yu
Alexander Wei
Xiang Yu:
Song of Ganxia
Liu Bang:
Song of the Great Wind
Li Yu:
In Prison
Mon Jan 5, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Sylvia Plath
Kristen Lauerman
Elm
Tue Jan 6, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Mark Hessler
First Fig, Second Fig, Spring, collected sonnets
Wed Jan 7, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Jorie Graham
Nadia Colburn
Imperialism, The Region of Unlikeness, The Dream of the Unified Field
Thu Jan 8, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Carol Ann Duffy
John Hildebidle
Telephoning Home, The Good Teachers, Dark School, Prayer, The Virgin Punishing the Infant, Elvis's Twin Sister
Fri Jan 9, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop
Howard Eiland
Roethke: The Waking, Bishop: One Art
Mon Jan 12, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Edmund Spenser, John Milton
Arthur Bahr
Spenser: Amoretti, Sonnet 89; Milton: Methinks I saw my late espoused saint
Tue Jan 13, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Mary Ruefle, Denis Johnson
Kevin McLellan
Ruefle: Seen Through Binoculars; Overcast. Johnson: Now.
Wed Jan 14, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Lewis Carroll
Jamie Graham
The Jabberwocky.
Thu Jan 15, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Richard Wilbur
Sue Delaney
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World, After the Bulletins, Conjuration
Fri Jan 16, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Denis Levertov
Anne Hudson
A Poem at Christmas, 1972, during the Terror-Bombing of North Vietname; The Gulf; A Metier of Blossoming; Cancion.
Tue Jan 20, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Flanders and Swann
James Buzard
Misalliance; Madiera, M'dear; The Hippopotamus; Ill Wind; The First and Second Law; Friendly Duet.
Wed Jan 21, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Alan Dugan
David Thorburn
How We Heard the Name; Morning Song; Religious Question; Speech to the Student Clowns at the Circus Clown School at Sarasota, Florida; Closing Time at the Second Avenue Deli
Thu Jan 22, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

John Berryman, Wilhelm Müller
Martin Marks
Berryman: Beethoven Triumphant. Müller: The Favorite Color, The Evil Color, The Forget-Me Flower.
Fri Jan 23, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

R.S. Thomas
Stephen Pepper
The Echoes Return Slow (excerpts), Together
Mon Jan 26, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

W.H. Auden
Randall Colaizzi
Ischia
Tue Jan 27, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Philip Larkin
Nora K. Delaney
Mr. Bleaney, The Whitsun Weddings, The Explosion
Wed Jan 28, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

William Shakespeare
Alvin Kibel
Sonnets I, XVIII, XX, LIII, LIV, LXXIII
Thu Jan 29, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304

Margaret Atwood
Sarah Brouillette
Footnote to the Amnesty Report on Torture
Fri Jan 30, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304


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