Join Jeffrey Morgan, Ph.D., for a four-week exploration of how vivid imagery excites the senses and expands the mind by bridging imagination and reality. Participants will trace the roots of imagistic poetry and its connection to ekphrastic poetry, examining how poets use visual language to deepen meaning. Through projected texts and lively group analysis, the class will delve into works by William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, and others, culminating in a close look at Wallace Stevens, whose poetry masterfully explores the interplay between imagination and the real world. With an accessible, engaging approach, Dr. Morgan invites participants to read, reflect, and "analyze the dickens out of" these powerful poetic voices. This program is being presented with limited enrollment to foster discussion.

LECTURES:

1.  Defining Imagery: Williams, Pound, MacLeish Day

2. Examples of Imagery: Williams, Roethke, Owen Day

3. Voices of Imagery: Hayden, Doolittle, Bishop, Moore

4. Wallace Stevens: Five poems