Bard College at Simon's Rock: the Early College

Book One Lecture: Prageeta Sharma

Monday, September 7, 2020

Virtual


Inaugurated in 2005, the Book One program asks the members of the incoming class to read the first book of the General Education program and their college careers over the summer. Each year, a book is selected based on excellence and suitability for promoting interdisciplinary conversations about the intersection of cultures. The author speaks during the Writing and Thinking Workshop week to enrich the students’ appreciation of the book and to give incoming students, as well as the entire Simon’s Rock community and the public, the chance to ask questions of the author. This year's Book One selection is Grief Sequence by Prageeta Sharma. The Book One Lecture will be delivered virtually and is presented as part of the Simon's Rock Poetry & Fiction Series.

About the Speaker
Prageeta Sharma is the author of the poetry collections Grief Sequence (Wave Books, 2019), Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013), Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books, 2007), The Opening Question (Fence Books, 2004), which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize, and Bliss to Fill (Subpress, 2000). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race, Creative Writing, Literary Studies and Art. A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award, and a finalist for the 2020 Four Quartets Prize, she has taught at the University of Montana and is now the Henry G. Lee '37 Professor of English at Pomona College. 

About the Poetry & Fiction Series at Simon's Rock
For over thirty years the Simon's Rock Poetry & Fiction Series has hosted prominent and upcoming poets and fiction writers, including Seamus Heaney, Annie Proulx, Derek Walcott, John Edgar Wideman, Susan Sontag, Rita Dove, and many more. Open to the community, the readings are preceded by a conversation with Simon's Rock students and followed by a Q & A with the attending audience. Co-coordinated by faculty members Peter Filkins and Brendan Mathews, the series consists of four readings done over the course of each fall semester.

How to Join the Webinar (free and open to the public)
> Join directly via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84904610986?pwd=N2hYSGJpcWdmajBWUDJlZFVqb1F1Zz09
> Passcode: 537166
> Join via Phone: +1 646 558 8656
> Webinar ID: 849 0461 0986
> International numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbn7g64hJX

 

Cost: Free

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