Please join us on Zoom on November 15-16, 2025 for the next Poetry Weekend!

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​​Save the date! For further information and to register, please check back on this site in mid-2025.

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The Mysteries of Pastoral Verse from Arcadia to the Present

 

As a genre, pastoral poetry covers a wide variety of themes from love and ambition to a society and polity in collapse. Its long history runs from the early Greek and Latin poets through modernist and contemporary poetry. The language of the pastoral is rooted in nature, the world seen as apart from humans. The imagery is metaphorical, a coded representation of human life.

 

Poetry Weekend 2025 will explore the hidden in the pastoral from its early roots to more contemporary poets such as John Keats, Robert Frost, Mary Oliver, and Robert Hass.  Guest presenter Nicholas Jones, who so ably guided our exploration of modernist verse in 2024, will provide a rich background of the conventions and coded themes of the pastoral.

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For a list of books about poetry, please click here.

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For lists of the poems that we've discussed during previous Poetry Weekends, click here:

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Questions? Please send email to:

Paula Weinberger, p.weinberger41@gmail.com or

Ginni Saunders, ginnisaunders@gmail.com

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