Poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch will discuss 鈥淧oetry and the Problem of Politics鈥 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 鈥淓ngland in 1819,鈥 Ezra Pound's 鈥淐anto 45,鈥 William Butler Yeats's 鈥淎ncestral Houses,鈥 and W.H. Auden's 鈥淪eptember 1, 1939.鈥
Kirsch is the author of 10 books of poetry and prose, including 鈥淓mblems of the Passing World; Poems after Photographs by August Sander鈥 and 鈥淭he Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry.鈥
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 bachelor鈥檚 degree from Harvard University. Kirsch has taught at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College.
The annual Flora Levy Lecture Series is hosted by the 星空无限传媒 Lafayette English Department through a 星空无限传媒 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.