The Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry Podcast

9.3 Lisa Jarnot: "Epistle to the Summer Writing Program (On the Metaphysics of Deep Gossip)"


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Welcome to the third episode of Season Nine of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.

Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.

Lisa Jarnot’s autobiographical lectures are an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry. Throughout these talks, Jarnot explores what it means to be a woman in a male-centered experimental tradition, to have white privilege and to write poetry. She examines the prophetic tradition in American poetry as inflected through counter-cultural spirituality, investigates the generative tensions at the intersections of formal and informal, traditional and experimental; develops relationships between ‘deep gossip’ and ecstatic connectedness; and asks, finally, what does it mean for the poet to act as prophet in envisioning a new heaven and a new earth.

Today we'll hear “Epistle to the Summer Writing Program (On the Metaphysics of Deep Gossip),” given June 24, 2021, in partnership with the Naropa University, via Zoom.

Jarnot’s book based on her BWLS lectures, titled, Four Lectures,

is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available here.

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. This podcast was produced by me, Ellen Welcker. Thank you to Naropa University for partnering with us on this event, and thank you for listening.

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