Winter and Spring 2018 Lectures and Readings

I will be giving a number of poetry readings and lectures this coming year, some open to the general public, some not.  If you are in the area, I hope you will join us. Check back here frequently, as I will be updating this calendar regularly in the coming month.  Click the icons at left for more information about an event.

February 19, 2018 (Monday), 8:00 p.m.  "Faith, Aesthetics, and the Trinitarian Dimensions of Beauty," a lecture at Hillsdale College.  Free and open to the public.

February 21, 2018 (Wednesday), 7:00 p.m. A reading from Some Permanent Things.  The Prop Shop, Spring Arbor University. 106 E. Main St. Spring Arbor, MI 49283. Free and open to the public.

February 22, 2018 (Thursday), 10:30 a.m. "The Part the Muses Give Us," a lecture and poetry reading, at Bloomfield Christian School.  Students and faculty only.

February 22, 2018 (Thursday), 5:30 p.m. A reading of The Stations of the Cross. 113 Ham Library, Rochester College.  Free and open to the public.

February 23, 2018 (Friday), 7:00 p.m. "The Catholic Imagination in Modern American Poetry." Catholic Studies Speaker Series.  Donnelly Center. Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, Michigan.  Free and open to the public.

April 7, 2018 (Saturday), mid-morning. Panel discussant at Big Questions Facing the Free Society, the annual meeting of The Philadelphia Society (April 6-8).

April 19, 2018 (Thursday), 7:00 p.m. "Poetic Meter as the Habituation to Metaphysics," a keynote address at the 24th Annual Conference of the Assocation for Core Texts and Courses.  Sheraton Conference Center, Framingham, MA.  For registered participants only.