Tag Archives: Eavan Boland
Poetry Friday: Festival Video – Eavan Boland
December 4, 2015Our Poetry Friday featured Festival video this week is a reading by Eavan Boland at the 2014 Dodge Poetry Festival. Eavan reads her poem “The Lost Art of Letter Writing.” For more information about Eavan Boland, check out our blog. *** … Continue reading
2014 Featured Festival Poet: Eavan Boland
June 27, 2014For those of you lucky enough to have heard poet Eavan Boland at the 2012 Festival, you already know what a powerful poet and reader she is, and what an engaging and eloquent speaker. If you’re unfamiliar with her work, … Continue reading
Poetry Friday: Eavan Boland, 2012 Festival Poet
June 22, 2012Eavan Boland’s “Quarantine” offers an ideal introduction to her poetry. Toward the end of the poem she writes, “There is no place here for the inexact/praise of the easy graces and sensuality of the body.” Boland refuses to gloss over … Continue reading
Poetry Friday: What do you mean by “giving voice”?
May 25, 2012Lately you may have heard us referring to Giving Voice, a series of poetry exploration groups and part of our Clearing the Spring, Tending the Fountain program for New Jersey teachers. But “giving voice” is also an overarching theme of … Continue reading