Mondays, October 7, 28, and Tuesday, November 12 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm

The poets in question are Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, and Elizabeth Bishop (with maybe a few “guest appearances” by others). We will be setting a larger context for each of these poets, dealing with their biographies and the critical reception each of them received. But mostly we’ll be looking closely at the texts, discussing the very individual ways these artists celebrate the art of poetry.

Instructor Bio: Max Westler earned his Bachelor of Arts from Boston University and his doctorate from Columbia University, where he worked with the poet Kenneth Koch. He has taught at Columbia College, Hunter College, and Northwestern University, where he taught both graduate and undergraduate courses. For 38 years, he supervised the Creative Writing Program at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana. His poems have appeared in The Minnesota Review, Poetry East, The Sycamore Review, Artful Dodge, The Greensboro Review, Religion and Literature, among others. His chapter book "Civil Defense" was published in 2011.

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