Poetry Weekend
November 16-17, 2024
The Great Books Poetry Weekend is held annually in November. Each year, the weekend includes discussions along with a poetry activity that entertains and involves all the participants.
Details
Please join us on November 16-17, 2024 for the next Poetry Weekend!
We’ve made a few changes to the format of this year’s Poetry Weekend. Rather than having the theme and guest poet separate from our small group discussions, we are putting all the pieces together.
The Weekend will focus on a broad theme – The Unraveling: Poetry of the Early Twentieth Century - a period of enormous change and upheaval. Not only were innovations in technology and science transforming the fabric of society and challenging established ideas, the legacy of World War I left a heavy and dark toll on the sensibilities of the period.
Our Poetry Weekend will focus on the impact of these forces on poetry – the movement from Romanticism and the Enlightenment to a world shrouded in uncertainty. We will look at the roots of modernism through the works of poets such as T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, W.B. Yeats, e.e. cummings, and others.
The weekend will open with an interactive talk by our guest presenter, Nicholas Jones, providing a foundation and context for our exploration of this period. In the afternoon, there will be small group discussions of representative poems. On Sunday, small group discussions will continue with an exploration of a single longer work, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot.
All activities will be conducted online via Zoom. A small fee is charged to defray the event's expenses.
For further information and to register, please click this link:
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For a list of books about poetry, please click here.
For lists of the poems that we've discussed during previous Poetry Weekends, click here:
Questions? Please send email to:
Paula Weinberger, p.weinberger41@gmail.com or
Ginni Saunders, ginnisaunders@gmail.com
