Welcome to the fourth and final 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 “Is That A Real Poem Or Did You Just Make It Up?” given December 9, 2021, in partnership with Portland Literary Arts, via Zoom.

Jarnot’s book based on her BWLS lectures, titled, Four Lectures, is outMay 7 from Wave Books, and is available here.

Visit us at our website, bagleywrightlectures.org, for more

Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions

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