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SUMMARY:The Waste Land | Lecture 1 of 3
DESCRIPTION:With his inimicable style and scearing wit\, Bob Shepherd will guide us through T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land over three sessions!\nCover charge is discounted against books! \nDETAILS OF EACH CLASS AND REQUIRED READING DUE SHORTLY \nBob Shepherd’s research focuses on the intertextual relationships between multilingual literatures\, particularly the poetry of T.S. Eliot. His current work explores Eliot’s poetic methods\, with particular emphasis on The Waste Land\, Prufrock and the fusion of dramatic monologue and lyric. Bob Shepherd currently teaches at UAM\, Madrid.
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SUMMARY:Casa Poética Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:SEE CLUBS PAGE FOR ALL WORKSHOPS AND BOOKCLUBS \nAlejandra Pizarnik: You write poems because you need a place where what isn’t may be. \nCan we hide in language? Can we use language to say the unsayable? What is it that cannot be said? This season\, we will enter the world of Alejandra Pizarnik (Buenos Aires\, 1936–1972) through a selection of poems in which language condenses\, meanings hide\, and the poet’s fight to speak will make us question the relationship between words and silence. \nCasa Poética is a literary community founded by poet and educator Irene Torra. Since 2022\, it has brought together more than 150 participants from over 30 countries around contemporary poetry through close reading\, collaborative discussion and live encounters with poets. \nFall dates:\nSeptember: 27\nOctober: 11\, 25\nNovember: 15\, 29 (with guest poet)\nDecember: 13 (open mic) \nTo join please fill in this FORM or contact Irene (on IG @casapoetica.madrid or via irenetorra.poesia@gmail.com) \n\nSingle session: 9 euros\nFull term (6 sessions): 45 euros\nOpen mic: 6 euros
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