Welcome to the fifth and final episode of Season Two of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to five lectures by Dorothea Lasky. Today, we’ll hear Dorothea Lasky give her lecture, “The Bees.” This lecture, the last in Lasky’s book of poetry lectures, Animal, was recorded especially for this episode. Following the lecture, Lasky and podcast host/BWLS coordinator Ellen Welcker will have a brief wonder about bees, flies, pigs, and some of the ways we might live together better.

Dorothea Lasky’s lectures explore the non-linear and highly complex relationship between language, color, time, and meaning-making–considering, for example, the “I” as multiplicitous shape-shifter–in search of the wild power of poetry. 

Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings. Thank you for listening--and stay tuned for Season Three: Terrance Hayes.

Dorothea Lasky's book of collected BWLS lectures, Animal (Wave Books, 2019) is here.

Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions

from the Free Music Archive

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