Sat Oct 15th 7:00pm
Please join us for an evening with Robert Bernard Hass, Poet, Robert Frost Scholar, & Director of the Robert Frost Society.
The poetry of Robert Frost, though in no way substituting for the miracles of modern medicine, can provide readers with a measure of solace. In addition to the sheer beauty of his poetry, Frost’s emphasis upon an immersion in nature, his belief in the stabilizing influences of family and community, his insistence upon courage (sometimes “the best way out is through”), his demonstration in his poetry of cognitive behavioral therapy, and his pragmatic belief that poetry can provide one with a “momentary stay against confusion” combine to provide young readers at least a partial antidote to the turmoil of their lives.
Robert Bernard Hass is the author of Going by Contraries: Robert Frost’s Conflict with Science (University of Virginia Press, 2002), which was selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title in 2003. He is also the author of the poetry collection, Counting Thunder, published by David Robert Books in 2008, and co-editor of the Letters of Robert Frost (Harvard University Press). His articles and poems have appeared in many leading journals, including Poetry, Sewanee Review, Agni, Poet Lore, Literary Matters, American Journal of Poetry, Black Warrior Review, Kenyon Review, Studies in English Literature, the Journal of Modern Literature, Hopkins Review, and the Wallace Stevens Journal. He has won an Academy of American Poets Prize, an AWP Intro Journals Award, and a creative writing scholarship to Bread Loaf. The Executive Director of the Robert Frost Society, he is professor of English at Pennsylvania Western University, Edinboro, where he teaches classes in American literature, British literature, Shakespeare, classical literature, literary theory, and creative writing. At Edinboro he has been honored as Educator of the Year (2008) and Scholar of the Year (2018).
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