NEWS RELEASE
SAULT STE. MARIE MUSEUM
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Join internationally acclaimed poet, lyricist/librettist and theatre maker Luke Hathaway at the Sault Museum on Tuesday, April 15 at 6 p.m. for a lecture and Q&A.
"While 2SLGBTQIA+ writers have sometimes said ‘Goodbye’ to Christ — as per the famously censored poem by Langston Hughes — we have sometimes also understood Christian stories by looking to our own queer lives," Hathaway said.
"This lecture looks at Elizabeth Bishop’s poem The Prodigal, Thom Gunn’s Sacred Heart and Jericho Brown’s Nativity, to see how we have worked, poetically, to make space for ourselves, in a tradition of sacred texts sometimes thought — and even said — to exclude us."
Luke Hathaway is an internationally-acclaimed poet, lyricist/librettist, and theatre-maker. He is a founding and core member of ANIMA (animaearlymusic.com) and of the Fractal Arts Collective.
On Hathaway’s 2022 book The Affirmations, The Times critic Graeme Richardson writes: ‘Mainstream poetry counts as nonconformist compared with popular culture, but it nevertheless develops its own conformities….. Luke Hathaway, a Canadian trans poet, offers … a point of difference. Influenced by John Donne and George Herbert, and above all by T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, Hathaway constructs small marvels of what one poem here calls “loving jugglery”: a feast of transformations.’
Hathaway is co-creator of the immersive opera Eurydice Fragments (re:naissance opera, 2024), the song-cycle The Sign of Jonas (Milltown Records, 2024), and the 15th c. transition story Navré de ton dart (ANIMA, 2022). He teaches English and creative writing at Saint Mary’s University.
This event is hosted by Algoma University's Department of English and History.
Cheese and beverages will be served.
Admission by donation.
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