Lit@MIT Readathon: Beowulf
Arthur Bahr
Tue Jan 25, 09:30am-04:00pm, 14E-304
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Get ready to rumble as the third annual Lit@MIT Readathon tackles Beowulf this IAP. On January 25, starting at 9:30 am in 14E-304, all are invited to come and join as we read out the hero's battles against the monstrous Grendel and his ferocious mother in Denmark, and a fire-breathing dragon back in his homeland. We will use Seamus Heaney's award-winning translation, which has the advantage of including the original Old English as well; those with either expertise in the language or an especially doughty spirit of adventure can read in Old English (on-the-spot pronunciation lessons will be available), but everyone is enthusiastically welcome. (No one, incidentally, should feel obliged to stay for the entire extravaganza; drop-ins are encouraged.) Following the conclusion of the poem proper, we will watch the probably-truly-terrible-but-still-amusing recent (2007) movie version of the poem. Mead, alas, will not be served, but light refreshments will be.
9:30am-11:30am 14E-304 11:30am-1:30pm TBD 1:30pm-2pm 14E-304 for lunch 2pm-4pm 32-141 for movie screening
Web: http://lit.mit.edu
Contact: Jamie Graham, 14N-407, x8-5629, jamiecg@mit.edu
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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 will soon be available from the Literature Office, 14N-407 and at http://lit.mit.edu.
Web: http://lit.mit.edu/
Contact: Jamie Graham, 14N-407, x8-5629, jamiecg@mit.edu
John Berryman
Stephen Tapscott
Dream Song 1 Dream Song 4 Dream Song 14
Mon Jan 3, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Li Bai
Alexander Wei
Tales of Sorrowful Song Feelings upon Awakening from Drunkenness on a Spring Day
Tue Jan 4, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Herman Melville
Wyn Kelley
Time’s Betrayal
Wed Jan 5, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Mark Halliday
David Thorburn
Poetry Failure The Fedge Summer Planning
Thu Jan 6, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Goran Sonneri
Zach Bos
from Mozart's Third Brain
Fri Jan 7, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
William Shakespeare
Howard Eiland
Sonnets 15, 71
Mon Jan 10, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Andre Lord, Tennessee Williams
Anne Fleche
Andre Lord Recreation Tennessee Williams Recuerdo Which is My Little Boy?
Tue Jan 11, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Ellen Bryant Voigt
David Thorburn
Cow Roof Amaryllis Farmer
Wed Jan 12, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Koch
Amaranth Borsuk
William Carlos Williams This is Just to Say Kenneth Koch Variations on a theme by William Carlos Williams
Thu Jan 13, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Tennyson, Swinburn
James Paradis
Tennyson Despair Swinburne Disgust: A Dramatic Monologue
Fri Jan 14, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
ee cummings
Anne Hudson
anyone lived in a pretty how town next to of course god america i 1(a… (a leaf falls on loneliness)
Tue Jan 18, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Timothy Donnelly
Kate Gyllensvard
Accidental Species
Wed Jan 19, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Anne Carson
Eugenie Brinkema
TV Men: Lazarus
Thu Jan 20, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Wilfred Owen
Nora Delaney
Dulce et Decorum Est Futility Anthem for Doomed Youth
Fri Jan 21, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Beowulf: highlights
Arthur Bahr
Beowulf
Mon Jan 24, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Beowulf Mobile Marathon
Arthur Bahr
Please join us in this year's Mobile Marathon: Beowulf! We will read the poem in its entirety in a walk around campus. A light breakfast and pizza lunch will be provided, culminating with a screening of Robert Zemeckis's Beowulf (2007).
More information may be found on the Literature website at http://lit.mit.edu
Tue Jan 25, 09:30am-04:00pm, 14E-304
Wayne Koestenbaum, Thom Gunn
Joel Burges
Wayne Koestenbaum Erotic Collectibles Thom Gunn The Man with the Night Sweats In Time of Plague
Wed Jan 26, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Christian Campbell
Alisa Braithwaite
Oregon Elegy Sidney Potter Studies Iguana
Note: today's session will meet in 14N-417!
Thu Jan 27, 01-02:00pm, 14N-417
Tennyson
James Buzard
Ulysses Tithonus The Lotos-Eaters
Fri Jan 28, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
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