Classes & TalksSaturday, November 7
2026 Wallace Stevens Birthday Bash featuring April Bernard
Saturday, November 7 · 2-4 p.m. · Hartford Public Library - Downtown Library
- When
- Saturday, November 7 · 2-4 p.m.
- Where
- Hartford Public Library - Downtown Library500 Main Street · Hartford, CT · 06103
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About this event
The Thirty-first Annual
One of Stevens’s persistent “ideas” concerned the aesthetics of the human-made, in contrast with what nature has made. If we look at the late (magnificent) poem “Auroras of Autumn,” we can see him change his mind about a central tenant of his long-held Aestheticism.
April Bernard’s The World Behind the World, her sixth book of poems, was published in 2023 by W.W. Norton; previous collections are Brawl & Jag, Romanticism, Swan Electric, Psalms, and Blackbird Bye Bye, which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her novel Miss Fuller was short-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award; she has also published short fiction in Little Star, Electric Literature, and The Southampton Review, and is a contributor of reviews and essays to The New York Review of Books and Book Post, among other journals. She teaches at Skidmore College and is currently at work on a volume of new and selected poems.
Program: This festive and illuminating event will begin with a reception of wine and hors d’oeuvres, followed by April Bernard’s presentation, and will conclude with a book signing, birthday cake and champagne!
Suggested donation $10 per person (entirely voluntary) to benefit Hartford Public Libarry
RSVP—Jim Finnegan, jforjames@aol.com, 860.508.2810
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