News from the Division of Languages and Literature

Bard professor Ann Lauterbach announced the new home of Professor Emeritus John Ashbery’s complete personal library at a poetry reading at Harvard earlier this month.

“In more than thirty-five collections of poetry, Kelly has utterly failed at one thing: to pigeonhole himself into predictability” (Booklist).

Townsend talks about the intriguing challenge of writing poems for a character, not as herself, in the new film The Kindergarten Teacher.

Conjunctions:71, A Cabinet of Curiosity features new work from Laura van den Berg, Ann Beattie, Brandon Hobson, Jeffrey Ford, Joyce Carol Oates, Joanna Scott, Can Xue, and more.

From the Bible to The Invisible Man, Professor of Comparative Literature Joseph Luzzi offered a “soul-saving” One Day University lecture in Woodstock.

Professor Mendelsohn describes how he has experienced the Odyssey at different times in his life, and how he rediscovers the text with each new translation.

Bard alum Julie Fogliano’s A House That Once Was, published by Roaring Brook Press, is among 10 winners of the 2018 award.