LN081 Tea and Tattered Pages: Adventures in Poetry

Tea and Tattered Pages: Adventures in Poetry

 "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know this is poetry." -Emily Dickinson

Program Description:

Tea and Tattered Pages is a multi-faceted program designed to bring poetry closer to the fore in our lives, and perhaps create a small community around it. Our activities include reading, writing, discussing, reciting, and trying to live poetry.

You can get a sense of what sorts of activities we will be doing on the program's web page:

Tea and Tattered Pages

November Agenda

The November session will compare and contrast classic and modern verse in an unusual manner. We will visit Montparnasse cemetery and — while stopping by various other literary graves — focus on Charles Baudelaire and the contrast with Romanian avant-garde poet Tristan Tzara, both of whom are buried there. We'll retire to a local café afterwards to relax and continue the discussions.

If you have any questions, please contact literature@wice-paris.org

Our Poet-in-Residence: Heather Hartley

Heather Hartley’s poetry collections include Adult Swim and Knock Knock, both published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. She was Paris Editor for Tin House magazine for over fifteen years.

Her short fiction, poems, essays and interviews have appeared in or on PBS Newshour, The Guardian, The Literary Review and other venues. She teaches creative writing at the University of Kent’s (UK) Paris School of Arts and Culture and has also taught at the American University of Paris and the University of Texas El Paso MFA program.

www.heatherhartleyink.com