Charles Olson Lecture
Date and Time
Saturday Feb 8, 2025
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST
Saturday, February 8th, 2025
1pm – 2pm
Location
Gloucester Stage Company, 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA 01930
Fees/Admission
Free and Open to the Public, $10 donation suggested.
Registration is required
Description
With Dr. Miriam Nichols, Professor Emerita at the University of Fraser Valley, in Abbotsford, British Colombia. Held in collaboration with the Gloucester Writers’ Center
Miriam Nichols, Professor Emerita at the University of Fraser Valley, will give this year’s annual Charles Olson Lecture, presented at the Gloucester Stage Company in partnership with the Gloucester Writers Center. Nichols will discuss Charles Olson’s early poems written during World War II and the ways he re-imagined the possibility of agency in the public sphere under seemingly impossible conditions. For more insight, please view Nichols’ abstract on our website.
In connection with this lecture, the Museum will be offering a tour of the Maud/Olson Library the day prior at the CAM Green on Friday, February 7th at 3:00 p.m. To learn more about the Maud/Olson Library and its acquisition, click here. To register for this tour, please email: Library@capeannmuseum.org
Photo Credit: (left) Charles Olson, c. 1960s (right) Olson’s apartment at 28 Fort Square, Gloucester, MA, January 11, 1970s. Photographs by Charles A. Lowe for the Gloucester Daily Times. Gift of the Gloucester Daily Times / Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company, 2004 [Accession # 2004.12].
