Poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch will discuss СAPPPoetry and the Problem of PoliticsСAPP during the 2018 Flora Plonsky Levy Lecture.
Kirsch will speak at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 18, in the Oliver Hall Auditorium on campus.
His presentation will examine how and why politics fuels the creativity of many writers.
Kirsch will consider the work of several influential poets, including Percy Bysshe Shelley's СAPPEngland in 1819,СAPP Ezra Pound's СAPPCanto 45,СAPP William Butler Yeats's СAPPAncestral Houses,СAPP and W.H. Auden's СAPPSeptember 1, 1939.СAPP
Kirsch is the author of 10 books of poetry and prose, including СAPPEmblems of the Passing World; Poems after Photographs by August SanderСAPP and СAPPThe Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry.СAPP
He is an editor for the Weekend Review section of the Wall Street Journal. Kirsch was a writer and editor for The New Republic.
His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Review of Books, and Poetry.
He received a bachelorСAPPs degree from Harvard СAPP. Kirsch has taught at Columbia СAPP and Sarah Lawrence College.
The annual Flora Levy Lecture Series is hosted by the UL Lafayette English Department through a UL Lafayette Foundation endowment. The free lecture is open to the public.
For more information, contact Jack Ferstel, master instructor in the Department of English, at jwf3885@louisiana.edu or (337) 207-8490.