Feb 28, 2023 • SPEAKER SERIES • Jeanine Hathaway – When the Muses Refuses
Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Time: 7:00 PM EST
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
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Description:
In France, 1981, Jeanine studied at the Centre Jeanne d’Arc with a goal of writing a series of poems about Joan. But after 40 years, she wonders how often she can change her tune and tempo: “Elegies and odes slip into cliches. Free verse lapses into prose. Sonnets? Joan of Arc, a monarchist, died for boundaries. A friend suggested I lighten up. My sighs have acquired the lilt and singsong of limericks. There’s more than one way to tame a saint.”
During this event, Jeanine will share how her writing has transformed over the course of her project to capture Joan of Arc through poems.
About Jeanine Hathaway:
Jeanine Hathaway is the author of the novel, Motherhouse (NY: Hyperion, 1992), the 2001 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize-winning The Self as Constellation (UNT, 2002), the chapbook, The Ex-Nun Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2011), and Long after Lauds (Slant Books, 2019) which won a 2020 Catholic Book Award for Poetry. She is professor emerita of English at Wichita State University and former mentor in the Seattle Pacific University MFA Creative Writing Program. She lives in Wichita, KS.
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