May 3, 2022 • SPEAKER SERIES • Edward Hirsch – Theodore Roethke’s “Cuttings” and “Cuttings (later)”
7:00 PM EST
This month's Speaker Series topic, “The Power of Language,” features contributors to the critical anthology A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke, edited by William Barillas and published by Ohio University Press in 2021. Each week, William will introduce one or more contributors who will speak about the Roethke poems they address in their anthology contributions.
Tonight, Edward Hirsch will read his essay on Theodore Roethke from his new book, The Heart of American Poetry (Library of America, 2022). The essay is an overall appreciation of Roethke’s work that drills down on the two “Cuttings” poems from The Lost Son and Other Poems.
About the speakers:
Edward Hirsch, a MacArthur Fellow, has published ten books of poems, most recently Gabriel: A Poem and Stranger by Night. He has published six books about poetry, including 100 Poems to Break Your Heart and his latest volume, The Heart of American Poetry. He is the editor of the Library of America’s edition of Theodore Roethke’s Selected Poems.
William Barillas is an independent writer, editor, and former academic who has taught in Michigan, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Costa Rica, and Ecuador. He is the author of The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland and the editor of A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke, both from Ohio University Press, as well as many scholarly essays, poems, and works of creative nonfiction.
Thanks to generous support from the Ohio Arts Council, Arts Midwest, and the National Endowment for the Arts, our Speaker Series is free through May 31, 2022.
7:00 PM EST
This month's Speaker Series topic, “The Power of Language,” features contributors to the critical anthology A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke, edited by William Barillas and published by Ohio University Press in 2021. Each week, William will introduce one or more contributors who will speak about the Roethke poems they address in their anthology contributions.
Tonight, Edward Hirsch will read his essay on Theodore Roethke from his new book, The Heart of American Poetry (Library of America, 2022). The essay is an overall appreciation of Roethke’s work that drills down on the two “Cuttings” poems from The Lost Son and Other Poems.
About the speakers:
Edward Hirsch, a MacArthur Fellow, has published ten books of poems, most recently Gabriel: A Poem and Stranger by Night. He has published six books about poetry, including 100 Poems to Break Your Heart and his latest volume, The Heart of American Poetry. He is the editor of the Library of America’s edition of Theodore Roethke’s Selected Poems.
William Barillas is an independent writer, editor, and former academic who has taught in Michigan, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Costa Rica, and Ecuador. He is the author of The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland and the editor of A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke, both from Ohio University Press, as well as many scholarly essays, poems, and works of creative nonfiction.
Thanks to generous support from the Ohio Arts Council, Arts Midwest, and the National Endowment for the Arts, our Speaker Series is free through May 31, 2022.
7:00 PM EST
This month's Speaker Series topic, “The Power of Language,” features contributors to the critical anthology A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke, edited by William Barillas and published by Ohio University Press in 2021. Each week, William will introduce one or more contributors who will speak about the Roethke poems they address in their anthology contributions.
Tonight, Edward Hirsch will read his essay on Theodore Roethke from his new book, The Heart of American Poetry (Library of America, 2022). The essay is an overall appreciation of Roethke’s work that drills down on the two “Cuttings” poems from The Lost Son and Other Poems.
About the speakers:
Edward Hirsch, a MacArthur Fellow, has published ten books of poems, most recently Gabriel: A Poem and Stranger by Night. He has published six books about poetry, including 100 Poems to Break Your Heart and his latest volume, The Heart of American Poetry. He is the editor of the Library of America’s edition of Theodore Roethke’s Selected Poems.
William Barillas is an independent writer, editor, and former academic who has taught in Michigan, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Costa Rica, and Ecuador. He is the author of The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland and the editor of A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke, both from Ohio University Press, as well as many scholarly essays, poems, and works of creative nonfiction.
Thanks to generous support from the Ohio Arts Council, Arts Midwest, and the National Endowment for the Arts, our Speaker Series is free through May 31, 2022.
