Poets on Poetry-June Edition
Rilke and the Birth of the Modern
A talk and discussion led by JUDITH K. LIEBMANN Wednesday, June 18, 7pm ET via Zoom The cultural transformation that began in the late nineteenth century and continued well into the twentieth, the rebellion against traditional artistic expression and the embrace of experimentation and new ideas, coincides with Rilke’s own development as one of the greatest of European poets. Indeed, his creative life is entwined from early on with all the major movements that define this era and the great artists and thinkers at its center. Using my own translations of a number of his poems, I hope to show how deeply they reflect his immersion in the cultural transformation into what we call “modernism.” Zoom Registration link: https://tinyurl.com/bddxdv38 Judith K. Liebmann is a poet, fiction writer and literary scholar. Her work has been published in numerous literary journals such as Orim, The Jewish Journal at Yale, Cream City Review, and The Massachusetts Review, as well as in The New York Times and Scientific American, and has been anthologized in the short story collection The Safe Deposit Box (Wiener, New York). A new collection of poems, Ekphrasis, was published in December 2023 (PreSSrappel). Her translations of works by Rilke, both poetry and short prose, some of which have never before been translated into English, will appear in a new collection, A Rilke Miscellany.Liebmann holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University, where she taught for many years, and was also the Director of the Writing Program at the Center for Independent Study at Yale. Among other honors, she has been awarded a Wilson Scholarship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Germanistic Society of America Grant, and a grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Since 2024, she has served as the inaugural Poet Laureate of the Town of Branford. Lynn DeCaro Winners Announced
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