Announcing 2016-2017 Readings and Lectures

My 2016-2017 slate of poetry readings and lectures is still forming, with new events being scheduled even now, so check back here frequently for updates.  Here is what I have finalized thus far. Click the icons at left for more details.​

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September 7, Wednesday, at 7:00 p.m. "Art Is a Jealous God: Aesthetic Autonomy and the Claims of the Divine," a lecture and poetry reading, in the Fried-Hemenway Auditorium of the Martha Miller Center for Global Communication at Hope College.

October 8, Saturday, 9:00-5:00. "Populism, Power, and Place," the Sixth Annual Front Porch Republic Conference.  I'll be joining Andrew Balio and Jason Peters to speak on the role of the arts in cultivating communities worth loving.  The Conference will be held in Bond Hall at the University of Notre Dame.  Tickets are limited!

March 21, 2017, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.  I shall deliver the Villanova Department of Humanities annual Faith and Reason Lecture, "Craftsmanship and Contemplation," in Driscoll Hall Auditorium.  Open to the public.

March 31, 2017, Friday, 1:00 p.m. I shall deliver a plenary address and poetry reading, "Four Quartets and the Finding of (Modernist) Form," as part of the regional meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature at Grove City College.

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April 21, 2017, Friday, "Poetry as Enchantment," a reading and discussion with the Collegium Institute, at the University of Pennsylvania.

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 April 29, 2017, Saturday.  A poetry reading at the Newburyport Literary Festival.

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July 22, 2017, Saturday, 11:00am, I shall address the Catholic Arts Guild on "Beauty, The Foundation of the West," at the St. John Cantius Auditorium, in Chicago, Illinois.

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