Lyric poetry explores fundamental questions of faith, politics, morality, and humanity. Compressed language, slippery ideas, suggestive images, and linguistic gestures at the sublime and the beyond, lyric poetry provides a unique experience with truth — with the way things are — and a distinctive encounter with mystery: both the intimate mysteries of the human heart and the cataclysmic mysteries of the cosmos.
In this reading group, Dr. DeMasi will lead discussions about some of the greatest lyric poetry in the Western Tradition, with special guests and visiting lecturers on lyric from other traditions. Join us as we embark on a journey into the liminal spaces of lyric poetry.
Dates: Wednesday, January 29th - and every two weeks thereafter
Time: 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. EST
Location: Zoom