An Uneasy Nexus: Poets Write Philosophy and Philosophers Write Poetry
Please join us in Auerbach 320 or online this Wednesday, Feb. 15, from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m., for our next meeting of the University of Hartford Philosophy Club as local poet and scholar James Finnegan presents An Uneasy Nexus: Poets Write Philosophy and Philosophers Write Poetry.
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James will lead us through a somewhat haphazard exploration of poets who could be considered philosophical and those philosophers whose works touch on poetics; the places where their thoughts meet and into the woods where they diverge.
James Finnegan has published poems in Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, The Southern Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review, as well as in the anthologies: Good Poems: American Places edited by Garrison Keillor; Laureates of Connecticut; Shadows of Unfinished Things; Imagining Vesalius; Waking Up to the Earth; and recently Walkers in the City. For a decade he served as president of the Friends & Enemies of Wallace Stevens (stevenspoetry.org). He posts aphoristic ars poetica on the blog Ursprache. Contact info: JforJames@aol.com
An ongoing weekly tradition at the University since 2001, the University of Hartford Philosophy Club is a place where students, professors, and people from the community at large meet as peers. Sometimes presentations are given, followed by discussion. Other times, topics are hashed out by the whole group.
Presenters may be students, professors, or people from the community. Anyone can offer to present a topic. The mode of presentation may be as formal or informal as the presenter chooses.
Food and drink are served. Come and go as you wish. Bring friends. Suggest topics. Take over the club! It belongs to you!