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The great Irish Poet Michael Longley is dead. He was beloved by readers of poetry on both sides of the pond, and in particular by the Poets' Theatre family. In October 2019 Michael and his wife, the literary critic Edna Longley, came over to be officially enrolled, both of them, in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. PT Artistic Director Bob Scanlan and I took the couple out to Concord MA for a nice foamy lunch, a visit to the graves of Emerson, Alcott and Thoreau, and then a walk out the "dike" at Great Meadows, where Bob snapped us sitting on a bench in the autumn twilight."Let the Irish vessel lie/ Emptied of its poetry."
The great Irish Poet Michael Longley is dead. He was beloved by readers of poetry on both sides of the pond, and in particular by the Poets' Theatre family. In October 2019 Michael and his wife, the literary critic Edna Longley, came over to be officially enrolled, both of them, in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. PT Artistic Director Bob Scanlan and I took the couple out to Concord MA for a nice foamy lunch, a visit to the graves of Emerson, Alcott and Thoreau, and then a walk out the "dike" at Great Meadows, where Bob snapped us sitting on a bench in the autumn twilight."
Let the Irish vessel lie/ Emptied of its poetry."
BOSTON POETS and THEIR PREDECESORS:
A Muster of Poets
Directed by Bob Scanlan
Featuring:
Richard Fein
Historically, Boston has been home to numerous prominent American poets. This remains true today, making its civic moniker of “the Athens of America” as fitting now as it was in the nineteenth century. This evening’s performance, directed by Poets’ Theatre President and Artistic Director Robert Scanlan, is a gathering of fine Boston poets,
Wednesday, January 18th, 2017 at 7:00 p.m.
The Boston Athenaeum
10 1/2 Beacon St. Boston MA 02108
who will read their own works in dialogue with the works of their nineteenth-century predecessors, invoking the ghosts of poets such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Amy Lowell, Christopher Cranch, Henry David Thoreau and Angelina Weld Grimke. The program will pay tribute to the Athenæum’s rich historical and literary roots while demonstrating how a living and contemporary literary scene continues to be nourished by this tradition.
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