Leader: Don Melander

Mondays, 10 AM – Noon | October 2 – November 6 on ZOOM

We are currently reading and discussing poems by Muriel Rukeyser, Delmore Schwartz, Karl Shapiro, and May Swenson in Library of America’s  American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Vol. 2: E.E. Cummings to May Swenson. New or used copies may be purchased online or ordered from your local independent bookseller. Poetry discussions are ongoing year – round for those who choose to do so.

Don Melander is a Senior Professor of Humanities, retired, at New England College, where he taught mostly literature and writing for 45 years. He holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Syracuse University. His dissertation is on the 20^th-century American poet Wallace Stevens. This seminar on American poets is his seventeenth for LINEC.