Join us for an afternoon of poetry featuring one of our nation’s leading poets, Dr. Catharine Savage Brosman. Dr. Brosman will read excerpts from her latest publication, Fire in the Mind, a retrospective of over nine decades of her writings.
Brosman has recovered for contemporary poetry a concern for the essentially human and universal within a romantic poetry of reflection that will remind many readers of William Wordsworth. Brosman’s poetry is by turns cosmopolitan, tasting of a broad range of places and landscapes, and steeped in the American south and southwest, where she has lived much of her life. What makes such poetry a pleasure to read is the way they invite one into the entire world, not just wide of breadth but also rich in depth. I remain convinced Brosman’s greatest strength is in a thematically and formally expansive poetry that weeps us up into the life of her thought.
—James Matthew Wilson, director of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, and poetry editor of Modern Age.
