Poetry Discussion with Janet Krauss: The Poetry of Richard Hugo (Zoom)

Please join us online for this rescheduled event when Janet Krauss will lead a discussion of a selection of poems by Richard Hugo. Links to the poems and discussion questions will be emailed in advance of the program. 

There is no charge for this program. Advance registration is required as is an email address. Register online to receive the Zoom session invitation link. 

Richard Hugo believed in himself, a gift he felt he earned after 30 or 40 years of writing poetry. He was in "love" with his "own responses" to people and places, maintaining "a tight, rhythmic control of his language," he expressed a strong sense of place in his poems. He created a meeting of internal and external landscapes.  

Hugo, 1923 - 1982, was a poet of the Pacific Northwest, a bomber pilot in WWII, and a student of Theodore Roethke. He taught Creative Writing at the University of Montana. He enjoyed a happy family life and camaraderie wherever he went. He said, "I internalize towns," and he mourned those who failed.

The above mentioned themes, and Hugo's identity in his poems will be discussed.

Janet Krauss, who has two books of poetry published, “Borrowed Scenery,” Yuganta Press, and “Through the Trees of Autumn,” Spartina Press, has recently retired from teaching English at Fairfield University.