2024 Blaney Lecture: "Making the Invisible Visible" by Jane Hirshfield

Join the Academy of American Poets on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, at 4:30 p.m. PDT / 7:30 p.m. EDT (online), for the 2024 Blaney Lecture, "Making the Invisible Visible: Some Thoughts on Poetry & Science,” delivered by former Academy of American Poets Chancellor Jane Hirshfield. Both poems and science are tools for making visible what was always there to be seen. Both also create new ways of seeing, feeling, knowing, living. Amid the crises, griefs, divisions, and losses of the current era, this talk explores a few examples of the ways that expansions of saying and knowing are also expansions of what might be possible, thinkable, doable. Jane Hirshfield's latest book is The Asking: New and Selected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023). Hirshfield was awarded the 2004 Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement by the Academy of American Poets. A link to this virtual event will be sent to registered attendees two days, two hours, and ten minutes before Tuesday, March 19, 2024, 4:30 p.m. PDT / 7:30 p.m. EDT (online). The Academy of American Poets' programs are made possible by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. We rely on the generous support of our members and people like you. Your contribution today will help us continue presenting poets at our many free events each year, connecting them with audiences all over the nation and the world. To donate, please visit: poets.org/donate . The annual Blaney Lecture features one of the nation’s most prominent poets lecturing on contemporary poetry and poetics. Past lectures have included Elizabeth Alexander on Lucille Clifton, Anne Carson on Homer, and Joy Harjo on Indigenous poetry. The Blaney Lecture was created in memory of former Academy of American Poets Board member Dr. Dorothy Gulbenkian Blaney, past president of Cedar Crest College and champion of women and education, by a gift from her estate. -- Event source: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-blaney-lecture-making-the-invisible-visible-by-jane-hirshfield-tickets-730674616447?aff=ebdssbonlinebrowse