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Mondays at Beinecke: Sterling Brown, James Weldon Johnson, and Modern Poetics with Ben Glaser

Ben Glaser is an assistant professor of English at Yale University. He is the coeditor of Critical Rhythm: The Poetics of a Literary Life Form.
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His book, “Modernism’s Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020), revisits early twentieth-century poetics to uncover a wide range of metrical practice and theory, upending our inherited story about the “breaking” of meter and rise of free verse.

Mondays at Beinecke: The Million Book Project with Reginald Dwayne Betts

The Million Book Project will bring curated 500-book literary time-capsules to 1,000 prisons and juvenile detention centers to each state in the United States. The Million Book Project, was conceptualized by poet and legal scholar Reginald Dwayne Betts, who serves as its project director.
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Read more about the project at https://millionbookproject.org/

Origins of the Dream: Langston Hughes's Poetry & Martin Luther King Jr.'s Rhetoric

A special Mondays at Beinecke gallery talk online with W. Jason Miller, Professor of Literature at North Carolina State University.
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Miller is the author of “Origins of the Dream: Hughes’s Poetry and King’s Rhetoric” (University of Florida Press, 2016), which traces the Rev, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s use of Langston Hughes’s poetry in his sermons and speeches from 1956-1968.

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