Poetry
The Power of Poetry to Connect Us – A Reading with Dan Gioia
The closing keynote address for the de Nicola Center’s 2021 Winter Conference, “We Belong to Each Other,” featuring a conversation with Dana Gioia, former Poet Laureate of...
watch videoForum 22-23: Aftermaths II: The Invasion of Iraq in the Present
Twenty years ago the United States invaded the sovereign nation of Iraq, a country of 44 million people that was, at the time, one of the most secular nations in the Middle East....
watch videoWhy I write
In this meditation, Natasha Trethewey, the Pulitzer Prize-winning 19th Poet Laureate of the United States considers the origins of her writing life. At the crossroads of personal...
View EventDisidencia sexual y de género en Gabriela Mistral / Gender and Sexual Dissidence in Gabriela Mistral
Offered in Spanish and English with simultaneous interpretation. Claudia Cabello-HuttAssociate Professor of SpanishDirector of Graduate StudiesThe University of North Carolina at...
View EventWriting the Queer Life of Gabriela Mistral / Escribiendo la vida queer de Gabriela Mistral
This session will explore how the intersection of the national with gender and racial aspects of “lo queer” – evidenced in letters, poems, and periodicals – enabled...
View EventLa Joven Mistral (1905-1929) / The Young Mistral (1909-1929)
One of seven lectures in the series “Rereading Gabriela Mistral 100 years after Desolación (1922-2022): A Transhemispheric Encounter,” this lecture will focus on the...
View EventProfessor and Poet James Matthew Wilson on the Importance of Writing
James Matthew Wilson is a poet and associate professor in religion and literature in the department of Humanities and Augustinian Tradions at Villanova University. In this...
Listen to PodcastLe Jongleur de Notre Dame
The year 1939 had been rude to Richard Sullivan. A sweet-tempered and longsuffering professor of English and creative writing at Notre Dame, Sullivan ’30 maintained an active...
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