I wasn't able to record our Zoom session, but I have compiled a list of authors we discussed, along with additions. You'll also find two links: one to an interesting article on LitHub about expanding the canon of Black writers, and links to the podcast I referenced during our session. 

Chinua Achebe, Chiamanda Ngozi Adichie, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jericho Brown, Octavia Butler, Edwidge Danticat, W.E.B Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Alex Haley, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Marlon James, Naguib Mahfouz, Toni Morrison, Helen Oyeyemi, Claudia Rankine, Tayeb Salih, Zadie Smith, Natasha Tretheway, Derek Walcott, Alice Walker, Jesmyn Ward, Colson Whitehead, John Edgar Wideman, Richard Wright

And consider this article posted at LitHub:

Toward an Expanded Canon of Black Literature

The panel discussion I mention from Stanford Humanities Center (first link is to the website, the second is to the same as a podcast):

https://shc.stanford.edu/multimedia/representations-race-and-ethnicity-art-and-literature

Representations of Race and Ethnicity in Art and Literature

This Memorial Day Weekend, we considered the theme of memory in literature. Here are links to the recordings:

Audio Sunday Q&A 5/24

Video Sunday Q&A 5/24 

Here also are links to items referenced:

The Poet's Dictionary, William Packard

The Art of Poetry Writing, William Packard

Ubi sunt (Wikipedia entry)

Mnemosyne (Wikipedia entry)

Anagnorisis (Wikipedia entry)

Proust, Excerpt from Remembrance of Things Past 

For our second session, I will be referencing musical works. Since we will be listening to segments during the talk, I've compiled the links below for you to preview and review at more length when convenient:

Debussy

• Nuages
• Submerged Catherdral

Satie

• Gymnopédie No. 1
• Gnossienne No. 1

Stockhausen

• Gesang der Jünglinge

Ligeti

• Artikulation
• Étude No. 13: L'escalier du diable / The Devil’s Staircase

Xenakis

• Pithoprakta
• Kassandra

Frank Martin

• Preludes, First of Eight

Barrios

• La Catedral

Gorecki

• Symphony No. 3, II. Lento e Largo - Tranquillissimo

Karaindrou

• The Suspended Step of the Stork

Tippett

• Man With the Blue Guitar

Dowland

• Lachrimae, Flow My Tears

Baier

• Sonnet 73

Vidales (Basho)

• Winter Garden

Burns

• Comin' thro the rye

Great to see you today and have a conversation! Below is the audio recording and two links referenced in our discussion.

Topic: Sunday Q&A - 5/17
Audio recording, on what you want from a book, and what you're reading between semesters

Christopher Logue, All Day Permanent Red (rendering of early sections of the Iliad)

Benjamin Dreyer, Dreyer's English, master editor tells all

Elinor Carruci, http://www.elinorcarucci.com, vulnerability and intimacy in photography 

Happy Mother's Day!

We discussed Clytemnestra, Hester Prynne, and Mrs. Bennett, among others! 

Here's a link to the audio recording of our session:

Sunday Q&A - 5/10 - Mother's Day Edition

How do images in literature, art, and music work together?

Tuesday mornings: May 12, 19, 26

We look at how imagery in poetry, drama, and the novel activates the sensory imagination in the reader’s experience. We then look at how music and musical imagery provokes emotion, memory, and narrative. Finally, we look at how images in drawing, painting, and photography create stories.

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• A series of three one-hour lectures via Zoom
• All lectures are scheduled to take place from 10 - 11am EST
• Tickets are $35 and give access to all three lectures