Presented by
Bethany Reid
4 Tu, 5/6/2025 - 5/27/2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location:
ONLINE via Zoom
(link emailed two days prior to class)
Fee:
$60.00
Concurrent with "Building a Super-Continent (Pangaea); Opening an Ocean Basin (Atlantic)"
May Swenson’s poetry has been described as keen, authentic, visionary, accessible (also elusive!), and democratic in its vision. I first fell for her when I read “The Centaur,” her whimsical, gender-twisting poem about a 10-year-old child pretending to be a horse. One thing I’ve learned in years of reading and studying her is that every reader has their own Swenson, and we don’t always agree on “who” she was. In this class, we will read Swenson’s writings, a sampling of her influences, and consider how she influenced the generations of poets who came after her. Poems not available in “Nature: Poems Old and New” (2000), will be provided.
