$21, $16 for Members, $13 Concession

Date:  Friday 28-May-2021
Single session (Ended)
Time 10:00am for 2 hr
Venue: Glyde-In Front room
Facilitator: MaryEllen MacDonald

America's first Inaugural Poet was Robert Frost, an older white man, and the latest was the young black woman poet Amanda Gorman. Frost's poem 'The Gift Outright' was read at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1961, and Amanda read for Joe Biden's just recently. While Frost's poem reflects on England's colonisation of America and its fight for independence, Gorman's 'The Hill We Climb' exhorts unity and a sense of personal and communal responsibility. To her, poetry is art, instrument and weapon combined. Let's explore the poets' different responses to times of turmoil and change.