May 2 • Speaker Series • Russell Brickey – “The Storm of the Mind vs. Family and Machine in Theodore Roethke's ‘Big Wind'"
Date: Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Time: 7:00 PM EST
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Cost: A donation is required to attend this event. Please select either $10, $5, or $1 donation based on your financial capabilities. If a donation is a hardship right now, please reach out to us at info@friendsofroethke.org.
About the event:
Russell Brickey contributed an essay on Theodore Roethke’s poem “Big Wind” to A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke (2021), edited by William Barillas and published by Ohio University Press. “Big Wind,” the last poem in the greenhouse sequence in Roethke’s second book, describes one of the Roethke family’s greenhouses and the work required one night to protect it from a terrible storm. Brickey’s reading demonstrates how the poem’s biographical and formal elements create “a portrait of the Roethke nursery, which represents the taproot of emotional life, juxtaposed with the turbulent weather of Great Lakes which in turn personifies upheavals in the human psyche.” Brickey will present his interpretation of this poem and then take questions and comments from the audience.
About Russell Brickey:
Russell Brickey has poetry collections from Spuyten Duyvil Press, Wild Leaf Press, and Kelsay Books, and he is the lead editor of a composition text from McFarland. His reader’s guide Understanding Sharon Olds was published in 2016. Currently a full-time lecturer in English at Youngstown State University, he holds a BA from the University of Oregon, and an MFA and PhD from Purdue University.
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