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Great Lives series: University of Lincoln, October 2017.

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The University’s Great Lives series continues this week with lectures by Tom Heap and Sir Mark Walport.

The series, featuring high profile speakers, aims to give an insight into the achievements of leading influential figures and recognisable faces from backgrounds such as the arts, business and economics, politics, health and science as well as bringing more local leading Lecturers and Visiting Professors to the fore.

Staff and students are encouraged to attend.

 Booking is advised, but there may also be tickets available on the door. Please follow the links below for more information.

 Tom Heap

Tuesday 17th October, 5.30pm for a 6.00pm Lecture

Jackson Lecture Theatre, Minerva Building

TV presenter Tom Heap is a freelance broadcaster and journalist with a passionate concern for rural affairs, science and the environment. Tom presents the investigations on Countryfile – Britain’s most popular factual TV programme.

http://lincoln.ac.uk/home/campuslife/whatson/eventsconferences/tom-heap.html

 Sir Mark Walport

Thursday 19th October, 11.00am for a 11.30pm Lecture

Isaac Newton Lecture Theatre, Isaac Newton Building

Recently appointed Chief Executive Designate of UK Research and Innovation, Sir Mark Walport has long been a champion for science, engineering and technology within his career including his role as Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Head of the Government Office for Science and Co-Chair of the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology.

http://lincoln.ac.uk/home/campuslife/whatson/eventsconferences/mark-walport.html

 All future Great Lives events can be found listed on the University website:http://lincoln.ac.uk/home/campuslife/whatson/eventsconferences/

Modern Times: Camille Paglia and Jordan B Peterson

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“Dr. Camille Paglia is a well-known American intellectual and social critic. She has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (where this discussion took place) since 1984. She is the author of seven books focusing on literature, visual art, music, and film history, among other topics. The most well-known of these is Sexual Personae (http://amzn.to/2xVGEEV), an expansion of her highly original doctoral thesis at Yale. The newest, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism, was published by Pantheon Books in March 2017 (http://amzn.to/2hGycTG).

Dr. Paglia has been warning about the decline and corruption of the modern humanities for decades, and she is a serious critic of the postmodern ethos that currently dominates much of academia. Although she is a committed equity feminist, she firmly opposes the victim/oppressor narrative that dominates much of modern American and British feminism.

In this wide-ranging discussion, we cover (among other topics) the pernicious influence of the French intellectuals of the 1970’s on the American academy, the symbolic utility of religious tradition, the tendency toward intellectual conformity and linguistic camouflage among university careerists, the under-utilization of Carl Jung and his student, Erich Neumann, in literary criticism and the study of the humanities, and the demolition of the traditional roles and identity of men and women in the West.”

Listen to the poets – for my MA Creative Writing students

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Following our discussion of Robert Creeley’s poem, “I Know a Man”, you may be interested in listening to the poet reading the poem at different times in his life. These recordings can be found at PennSound, which is a living archive of modern and contemporary poets: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/authors.php

You can also listen to William Carlos Williams reading “The Red Wheelbarrow” on the same site.

 

Prep for Intro to Victorian Poetry lecture (Week 2). ENL1012M

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INTRODUCTION TO VICTORIAN POETRY (ENL1012M)

Week 2, Wednesday, 4 October, 10.00 – 11.00, DCB1101:

The following are the poems to which I refer in my lecture on Introduction to Victorian Poetry. All except “The Leper” by Swinburne* are contained within The Norton Anthology The Victorian Age (Volume E). They are also easily available in secondhand collections and anthologies, and online. Please take a look at them beforehand.

“Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse”, Matthew Arnold

“Dover Beach”, Matthew Arnold

“Sonnet 17”, from Later Life, Christina Rossetti**

“No Coward Soul Is Mine”, Emily Bronte

“Ulysses”, Tennyson

”Tithonus”, Tennyson

“My Last Duchess”, Robert Browning

“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, Robert Browning

“The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, Edward FitzGerald**

“Jabberwocky”, Lewis Carroll

“The Jumblies”, Edward Lear

“Jenny”, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“The Leper”, Algernon Charles Swinburne

 

* A copy can be found online – http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Leper

**  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19188/19188-h/19188-h.htm#II_154

Radio Wildfire – Spoken Word Online Radio

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March: a border district – just the kind of area we love wandering through, reclaiming, ignoring and remaining proudly international, with another edition of re.Lit on Radio Wildfire – a unique and eclectic selection of spoken word and music sourced from around the country and around the globe by the team at Radio Wildfire.

We have tracks newly uploaded to the Submit page of our website by Dave Pitt, Jessica Lawand, in New York, Stephen Mead.

There’ll also be the whole of the semi-final section of the recent ‘first Wolverhampton Litfest Poetry Slam’ with contributions from Paul Francis, Marianne Burgess, RMFrancis, Willis the Poet, Jason Nicholas Smith, and Nick Lovett – and the evening’s MCs Dave Pitt, Steve Pottinger and Emma Purshouse.

And, as always, we’ll be digging deep into the Radio Wildfire archive to bring you more gems of poetry, storytelling and humour that no one else seems to play – or indeed have.

The show, as always, is introduced by poet and performer Dave Reeves and produced byVaughn Reeves with backroom support from Ali McK.

Join us: Monday 6th March from 8.00 pm UK time at www.radiowildfire.com/listen

Radio Wildfire: the long March

                                        … Why not send your own tracks to Radio Wildfire by going to the ‘Submit’ page of our website and uploading MP3s of your work. Spoken word and music, comedy, storytelling, poetry, song and aural art, they are all part of the eclectic mix we are looking for when we create Radio Wildfire Live!

 

Follow Radio Wildfire on Twitter @radiowildfire and find us on Facebook

 p.s. Please pass on this information to anyone that you think might be interested.  Thank you.

WHAT IS RADIO WILDFIRE?

Radio Wildfire is an independent online radio station which blends spoken word, poetry, performance literature, comedy, storytelling, short stories and more with a novel selection of word/music fusion and an eclectic mix of musical styles. www.radiowildfire.com broadcasts live 8.00-10.00pm (UK time) on the first Monday of the month.

Free online poetry course at Iowa.

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The Course

How Writers Write Poetry, a six-week course beginning on June 28, 2014, is an interactive study of the practice of writing poetry. The course presents a curated collection of short, intimate talks on craft by two dozen acclaimed poets writing in English. Craft topics include sketching techniques, appropriation, meter, constraints, sound, mindfulness, and pleasure. The talks are designed for beginning poets just starting to put words on a page as well as for advanced poets looking for new entry points, thoughts about process, or teaching tips. The course will be taught by University of Iowa International Writing Program Director and poet/translator Christopher Merrill as well as Black Rainbow Editions Editor and poet Mary Hickman. Contributing poets’ video talks will be contextualized through online discussion and writing assignments. The Poetry Teaching Assistants (all Iowa Writers’ Workshop students or graduates with university level experience teaching creative writing) will join Mary Hickman in offering online poetry workshops to participants. (Please note: we can’t workshop everyone, but we will workshop a representative selection of participants’ work every week.) Poets who have contributed video craft talks for the course include former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass, Kwame Dawes, Marvin Bell, Kiki Petrosino, Kate Greenstreet, and many others. How Writers Write Poetry will offer a diversity of answers to the question of how a writer develops and refines the lifelong practice of his or her craft. Enrollment in How Writers Write Poetry is free and unlimited.

Source/go to: How Writers Write Poetry.