Poetry Society Annual Lecture with Diane Seuss

Diane Seuss will be leading this year’s Poetry Society Annual Lecture, with “Burlesque Picaresque in the Rural Midwest: My Education in Poetry”.

The lecture will address an education in poetry from outside the borders of academia, specifically that of a poet from the rural working class. Seuss will frame the discussion by considering how the literary burlesque, and the ethos of the picaresque hero, provide models for the outsider poet whose marginality is the source of her power.