Program Timing: Friday 4/19/24 1pm
Address: Cotuit Library, 871 Main Street, Cotuit
Please only sign up if you are interested and available to participate in this 4 day series: May 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th
We will continue to celebrate our 150th anniversary with a four part learning series of Emily Dickinson's poems with local resident David Webb. David has chosen 32 poems for this offering, eight per session, and hopes that a few friends of the Cotuit Library will choose to read, wrestle with, and discuss these poems with him.
Emily Dickinson is a candidate for "The greatest American Poet" award. While many Americans know this about her, very few have actually read much of her poetry. In spite of her unusually limited life-style -- she had modest schooling, lived at home with her family in Amherst, Massachusetts, traveled very little, never married or really had a partner-- she enjoyed a rich and lively intellectual and spiritual life. She wrote about 1775 poems, most of these secretly, and she published just seven, all anonymously. As she said to her would-be publisher and mentor Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."
David Webb is a 1964 graduate of Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School, 1968 from Wesleyan, and he holds two advanced degrees from Columbia University. He spent his entire career at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, CT, where he taught English, mathematics, and Architectural Design and did college counseling. He is now retired and lives with his wife in Cotuit.
Each student will be provided a copy of Final Harvest to use for the course of the series. Spaces are limited.
