Mary Szybist: There Interposed a ____: A Few Considerations of Poetic Drama (July 2013)

This talk considers the ways that very different poems set up one basic dramatic occasion: a moment when something comes between the speaker and his or her destination or desire. As we track this geometry, we will take note of its remarkable flexibility in poems by Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, William Stafford, Langston Hughes, William Wordsworth, and the medieval Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym.