Williams Faculty Lecture – Jessica Fisher, ‘The Faraway Brought Close – Poetry & the Work of Feeling’

Jessica Fisher is an Associate Professor of English at Williams College and a widely published writer. Her poems appear in such journals as The American Poetry Review, The Believer, The Bennington Review, The New Yorker, The Threepenny Review, Tin House, and The Yale Review, and her translations have been published in The New York Review of Books and The Paris Review. She was awarded the 2012 Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature, a Holloway Postdoctoral Fellowship in Poetry, and a research grant from the Hellman Foundation.

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Jim Kolesar / Williams College Office of Public Affairs and Media Services
Series
Window on Williams
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Lectures & Forums

Milne Library Presents – Talented Daughter of a Famous Father – The Life and Sculpture of Margaret French Cresson

Dana Pilson, curatorial researcher at Chesterwood, illustrates the life & work of Margaret French Cresson, the daughter of sculptor Daniel Chester French, who was a gifted artist in her own right.

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Milne Library
Series
Milne Library Presents
Category
Lectures & Forums