24Su – A – Poets of Place: Edwin Arlington Robinson’s Tilbury Town, Maine

 Location: Lyons Center, NEC  Mondays, 10 AM-Noon | July 8 - 29   Leader:  Don Melander  Facilitator: Alice Nye In the late 19th/early 20th centuries, Robinson wrote several series of poems, many of which are sonnets featuring fictional characters such as Richard Cory, Luke...

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24Sp- A Epic Poetry: The Iliad

       Mondays, 10 AM - Noon | April 1 - May 20 | ZOOM        Leader: Don Melander | Facilitator: Alice Nye Because Glenn Stuart is doing The History of Troilus and Cressida in his Shakespeare course this term, we are...

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23F-A Modern American Poetry

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...

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2023 Summer Term Registration-PICK THIS FIRST

Pick this pass first and then pick as many courses that you would like. Then pay at the end.

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A-African-American Poetry

Mondays, 10 AM - Noon | Oct 3, 10, 17, 24, Nov. 7 Leader: Don Melander Participants who join for LINEC’s fall term may continue or leave at any time after that, as poetry discussions are ongoing throughout the year. We...

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American Poetry

Mondays, July 11, 18, 25 | 10 AM - Noon Instructor: Don Melander American Poetry focuses on David Budbill's collection of poems-of-place Judevine, set in the Northeast Kingdom.  David used to come to NEC for a few days in July/August to do a...

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The Beat Poets: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Corso and di Prima

Leader:  Don Melander Mondays |  October 4 – November 8 | 10 AM – Noon Those of us who were coming of age in the 1950s may remember reading Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road, perhaps some of his other novels, and...

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