{"id":207628,"date":"2019-09-24T08:49:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T12:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/?p=207628"},"modified":"2022-02-16T14:18:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T19:18:42","slug":"poetry-readings-lectures-sponsored-by-the-marie-frazee-baldassarre-professorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/2019\/09\/24\/poetry-readings-lectures-sponsored-by-the-marie-frazee-baldassarre-professorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Readings & Lectures Sponsored by the Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professorship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fall 2019: Poetry Readings & Lectures Sponsored by the Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professorship<\/h2>\n

Leonita Flynn, Queen’s University Belfast<\/a>
\nThursday 24th October, 1 p.m., Feliciano 015<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Leontia Flynn<\/strong>, born in County Down, Northern Ireland, will read from her most recent volume of poetry, The Radio<\/em>, which won the Irish Times<\/em> Poetry Now Prize and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.\u00a0 Her earlier volumes have won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Lawrence O\u2019Shaughnessy Award for Irish poetry, and many other honors.\u00a0 She lives in Belfast and teaches creative writing at Queen\u2019s University Belfast.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

Natalie Diaz, Arizona State University<\/a>
\nThursday 7th November, 1 p.m., Feliciano 015<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Natalie Diaz<\/strong> may be the only poet who was a professional basketball player before winning a MacArthur prize in 2018. An enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community, she is Mojave and teaches in the Creative Writing MFA program at Arizona State University. Diaz will be reading from her book\u00a0When My Brother Was an Aztec<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

Lectures<\/h2>\n

Geraldine Higgins, Arizona State University<\/a>
\nTuesday 3rd December, 5:30 p.m,.\u00a0Dickson 179<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Geraldine Higgins<\/strong>, a native of Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, and a professor in the English Department at\u00a0 Emory University, will speak on \u201cExhibiting Seamus Heaney.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 Professor Higgins\u00a0curated the Seamus Heaney exhibition now on display in Dublin and is the author of many books on Irish writing.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

Roy Foster, Hertford College<\/a>
\nTuesday 10th December, 5:30 p.m., Dickson 179<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Roy Foster<\/strong>, acclaimed Irish historian, biographer of Yeats, and recently retired Carroll Professor of Irish History at Hertford College, Oxford, will speak on \u201cYeats and the Place of Writing in Modern Ireland.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fall 2019: Poetry Readings & Lectures Sponsored by the Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professorship Leonita Flynn, Queen’s University Belfast Thursday 24th October, 1 p.m., Feliciano 015 Natalie Diaz, Arizona State University Thursday 7th November, 1 p.m., Feliciano 015 Lectures Geraldine Higgins, Arizona State University Tuesday 3rd December, 5:30 p.m,.\u00a0Dickson 179 Roy Foster, Hertford College Tuesday 10th December, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":207645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-57_english-department","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207628"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208576,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207628\/revisions\/208576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}