FOSTER
SELF-DISCOVERY + ENJOY LIFELONG LEARNING
Meghan
O’Rourke, Author and Former Editor at The New Yorker and Slate.
Monday,
July 21, 7 pm
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Available
in Response: On Writing and Thinking and Rewriting and Rethinking
This
will be a talk about why one might want to write or read poetry, what poetic
language can do that is
unlike any other kind of language, the pleasures of irony and sincerity, the
ways that artists transform
‘life’ in to art. We’ll be looking at and talking about Elizabeth Bishop and
Sylvia Plath and Ezra
Pound, as well as visual artists like Robert Irwin.
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Admission is FREE, but registration is required. Please visit stamfordmuseum.org/adultprograms
to register.
A “Q&A” session will follow each lecture.
The lecture will be held at the Stamford Museum & Nature Center in the Bendel
Mansion, 39 Scofieldtown Road, Stamford,
CT, 06903. For more information, please call 203-977-6521. stamfordmuseum.org
mayapplecenter.org The program is presented by the Stamford Museum & Nature Center in collaboration with Mayapple Center for
the Arts andHUmanities.
