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...
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Forum 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....
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Why 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...
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Disidencia 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...
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Writing 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...
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La 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...
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Professor 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...
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Le 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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