Poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch will discuss ӰרPoetry and the Problem of PoliticsӰר 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 ӰרEngland in 1819,Ӱר Ezra Pound's ӰרCanto 45,Ӱר William Butler Yeats's ӰרAncestral Houses,Ӱר and W.H. Auden's ӰרSeptember 1, 1939.Ӱר
Kirsch is the author of 10 books of poetry and prose, including ӰרEmblems of the Passing World; Poems after Photographs by August SanderӰר and ӰרThe Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry.Ӱר
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 bachelorӰרs degree from Harvard Ӱר. Kirsch has taught at Columbia Ӱר 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.