STARKVILLE READS PRESENTS SPRING PROGRAMS, 2011

Dr. Noel Polk on the poems of e.e. cummings

Thursday, April 7, 2011, 7:00 pm

Celebrate National Poetry Month with selected poems by e.e. cummings, the experimental and innovative poet who wrote many delightful and whimsical poems and serious ones on love and war.

Poems to be discussed on the 7th can be read online by clicking the links below.

The Cambridge Ladies

my sweet old etcetera...

anyone lived in a pretty how town

pity this busy monster,manunkind...

what if a much of a which of a wind.

Read all of cummings's poems online by clicking here.

Discussion held at the Starkville Public Library.

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March 22, 2011

Dr. Noel Polk
Professor Emeritus of English at MSU

A discussion of two short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald,“Babylon Revisited”

“The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”

Click link above to read Fitzgerald's stories online.
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Dr. Nancy Hargrove
Giles Distinguish Professor Emerita of English

discussed

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story
“The Yellow Wallpaper”

Read THE STORY by clicking here to go ONLINE or type in

http://www.scaryforkids.com/yellow-wallpaper/

Read more about Gilman’s story here.

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