2024 Virtual Speaker Series
A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke
About the series
A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke (edited by William Barillas and published by Ohio University Press in 2021) is a constellation of essays that reanimates the work of Theodore Roethke for a new century. In this series, four of the contributors will discuss the poem they wrote about in the book while sharing their individual perspectives on Roethke’s life, work, and legacy.
About this session
Trenton Hickman, Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University, leads us through Roethke’s late poem “The Abyss,” in which spiritual crisis yields to an embrace of the sacred as embodied in “the small but not insignificant manifestations of life that have always been around us.” The presentation will conclude with time for audience questions and conversation.
About Trenton Hickman
Trenton Hickman is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University. He specializes in twentieth-century American literature and Latino literature and is particularly interested in the intersections between the “centers” of twentieth-century American literature and its “margins”–how the production of “border” literatures affects and alters our understandings and reception of more canonical American literatures. He received a BA in Honors English and University Honors and a MA in English from Brigham Young University and earned his Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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