Past Event: Literature & Spirituality | Fanny Howe

Fanny Howe, poet

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Location: ISM Great Hall
409 Prospect
New Haven, CT

Admission: Free

Open to: General Public

Description: Film Color: A Story in Black and White a meditation on the nature of art and faith using film images, poems, and other texts. The Lana Schwebel Memorial Lecture in Religion and Literature.

Lectures and readings followed by a book-signing and reception. Presented in collaboration with Yale Divinity Student Book Supply.

Bio: 

Fanny Howe is the author of more than 20 books of poetry and prose. “If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone’s notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle,” Fanny Howe explained in a 2004 interview with the Kenyon Review. Indeed, more than a subject or theme, the process of recording experience is central to Howe’s poetry. Her work explores grammatical possibilities, and its rhythms are generated from associative images and sounds.