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Home  PROGRAMS Program Schedules May 08
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May's programs are shaped around the theme of faith.
Robert Browning's great diatribe The Lost Leader (May 8) bemoans the loss of faith in a cause, while Jenny Jospeh's The Road from Glastonbury (on the same day) explores how to live in a post-religious age.
How to approach a God who is now mythical but still ever-present in the imagination is the subject of the two poems on May 9 by the current Library of Congress Poet Laureate Charles Simic. while two English Poets Laureate, John Betjeman and Andrew Motion explore the difficulties of resisting the metaphysical on the approach of death.
Karl Shapiro (May 14) and Erich Fried (May 2) discuss the abandonment of left-wing idealism by the fellow-travellers of the reform movement. While Joseph Brodsky in his long poem Nunc Dmittis (May 28) describes with a mood of celebration the feeling of certain proof in belief.
Enjoy ... and let's hope our faith in the weather may finally bring on Spring!
May
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1
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Philip Levine
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American
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What Work Is
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2
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Ruth Fainlight
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American
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Handbag
The Tree Surgeon
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5
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Erich Fried
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Austrian
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Karl Marx 1983
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6
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Erich Fried
Roy Fuller
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Austrian
English
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Reasons (for not giving up)
Freud’s Case Histories
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7
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Robert Browning
Jenny Joseph
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English
English
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The Lost Leader
The Road from Glastonbury
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8
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Ruth Padel
Mona van Duyn
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English
American
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Tiger Drinking at Forest
Pool
End of May
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9
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Izet Sarajlic
Charles Simic
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Serbian
American
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Luck in Sarajevo
Psalm
To the One Upstairs
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12
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W H Auden
Claudia Alegria
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English
El Savadoran
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Edward Lear
Accounting
Rain
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13
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Kathleen Jamie
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Scottish
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The Tay Moses
The Tree House
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14
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Karl Shapiro
Naum Korzhavin
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American
Russian
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Death of Emma Goldman
Imitation of Monsieur Béranger
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15
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Emily Dickinson
Billy Collins
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American
American
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Because I Could not Stop for Death
Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes
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16
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Adrienne Rich
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American
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What Kind of Times Are These
Rusted Legacy
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19
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John Betjeman
Andrew Motion
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English
English
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Inevitable
One Who Disappeared
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20
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Michèle Roberts
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English
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The Day the Wall Came Down
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21
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Robert Creeley
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American
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A Form of Woman
Age
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22
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Thomas Warton
Cecil Day Lewis
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English
English
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To the River Lodon
The Album
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23
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Jane Kenyon
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American
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Happiness
Twilight: After Haying
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26
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Simon Armitage
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English
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The Dead Sea Poems
The Jay
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27
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Michael Donaghy
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Irish/American
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Cadenza
Pentecost
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28
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Joseph Brodsky
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Russian
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Nunc Dmittis
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29
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Theodore Roethke
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American
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The Dream
Child on Top of a Greenhouse
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30
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Countee Cullen
Michèle Roberts
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American
English
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The Loss of Love
Christina Rossetti Writes a Memo
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