Poetic Alignments

Tuesday, October 29, 2024 7:30 pm

Poems are lined up in more than one way.  The variety of lines, in the strict sense, is limitless (curves and angles in patterns or randomly), the placement of motifs and tones and themes similarly).  

Alta Arts is pleased to invite you to an evening of poetry featuring Dr. Catharine Savage Brosman, one of our nation’s leading poets.  The doors to Alta Arts will open at 7 pm with the program starting promptly at 7:30 pm.  Tickets are $15.  Free parking and complimentary beverages & snacks provided.

Following is one of the reviews of her work.

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.