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The great Irish Poet Michael Longley is dead. He was beloved by readers of poetry on both sides of the pond, and in particular by the Poets' Theatre family. In October 2019 Michael and his wife, the literary critic Edna Longley, came over to be officially enrolled, both of them, in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. PT Artistic Director Bob Scanlan and I took the couple out to Concord MA for a nice foamy lunch, a visit to the graves of Emerson, Alcott and Thoreau, and then a walk out the "dike" at Great Meadows, where Bob snapped us sitting on a bench in the autumn twilight."Let the Irish vessel lie/ Emptied of its poetry."
The great Irish Poet Michael Longley is dead. He was beloved by readers of poetry on both sides of the pond, and in particular by the Poets' Theatre family. In October 2019 Michael and his wife, the literary critic Edna Longley, came over to be officially enrolled, both of them, in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. PT Artistic Director Bob Scanlan and I took the couple out to Concord MA for a nice foamy lunch, a visit to the graves of Emerson, Alcott and Thoreau, and then a walk out the "dike" at Great Meadows, where Bob snapped us sitting on a bench in the autumn twilight."
Let the Irish vessel lie/ Emptied of its poetry."
The POETS' THEATRE invites Canada's Poet Laureate to Boston, October 9-14
Louise Bernice Halfe, aka Sky Dancer, is Canada's first indigenous (Cree Nation) writer to be named Poet Laureate. Among other things she is a survivor of the hideous "Residential Schools" where for decades the government farmed out tribal children to the tender mercies of Catholic nuns and priests. The trauma the kids suffered was not just sexual and physical abuse, it was an attempt at cultural erasure, to wipe the "indian" out of the children. Sky Dancer's poetry draws on the deep wells of sorrow the seven years caused her and her family. The best opportunity for Poets' Theatre supporters to meet and hear Louise is the the Museum of Science, 7pm Wednesday October 11. Free, but you need to register at MOS.org.
