The English Reading Circle on Poetry has returned for 2016-2017, and we’ve got a great selection of poems for the upcoming year! We’re going to be reading poems by contemporary American poets associated with the Unamuno Author Series taking place here in Madrid. With a nice sense of continuity, our first poem of the year,
This month we’re going deep into the realms of poetry with Adrienne Rich’s “Diving into the Wreck” (1973). Rich was an accomplished poet by the age of 22, winning the prestigious Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1951. Much of her early poetry is characterized by an adherence to formalist poetic traditions and has been described
This month’s poem is “A Sunset of the City,” by Gwendolyn Brooks. Brooks was a prolific and accomplished poet, and was the first black writer – male or female – to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, which she was awarded in 1950 for her second collection of poems, Annie Allen. In addition to poetry,
Summer is over, autumn is here, and our monthly poetry reading group is back! This year brings us some exciting new developments. We are now called the English Reading Circle: Poetry and Prose Poetry (sister group to the English Reading Circle: Short Stories); and as this new name indicates, we will be expanding our reading
Poem of the month: “Colors passing through us,” by Marge Piercy Welcome to the first session of the Afternoon Poetry Club. Valentine’s Day is about to pass by this week so we’re going to think about love, or rather, about love poems in this first session. Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, And so are