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Young Chautauqua welcomes kids for summer workshops, performances Middle and high school students in the Monadnock region and beyond are invited to time travel this summer at Young Chautauqua, part of Keene Chautauqua 2008. The Humanities Council has awarded a major grant to the Keene Public Library and its partners for Keene Chautauqua 2008. The theme for this year’s living history festival is Maverick Entertainers: Performers That Shaped America. Look for more information on Keene Chautauqua in upcoming editions of the Calendar. Participants in Young Chautauqua will begin meeting at the Keene Public Library in May. They will research and choose historical characters to portray, develop a script and practice their performances. The program culminates with two live performances August 1st and 2nd. “This is one of the few free summer experiences available to students in the Keene area,” according to Paul Teitelman, Young Chautauqua co-director. Gerald Kuhn is co-directing the program with Teitelman. They are both teachers st Monadnock Regional High School. Interpreting poetry with Alice Fogel and NH Poet Laureate Patricia Fargnoli The Humanities Council has awarded a grant to the Winchester Historical Society for a discussion of poetry with New Hampshire’s Poet Laureate, Patricia Fargnoli led by poet Alice Fogel. The discussion will focus on Fargnoli’s poetry and will also include a conversation on poetry as a literary genre. This free event will take place on Thursday, May 8 at 7 p.m. at the Sheridan House Museum at 391 Back Ashuelot Road in Asheulot. Fargnoli will read some of her work and discuss her role as New Hampshire’s Poet Laureate. Fogel will lead a discussion on reading and understanding poetry with an emphasis on the fact that there is no “right” way to interpret a poem. “When I read a poem, I don’t expect to ‘get it’,” said Fogel. “I go through a process much like listening to a lesson on a foreign language. The first time through, I just listen, letting it wash through me, not trying to make sense of it. The second time, I begin to make connections - a word or phrase here, a context there. Next I might try pronouncing the sounds myself. Each time I feel more, I know more. Little by little, the poem enters me, until finally I have entered the it.” Patricia Fargnoli has offered poetry classes and workshops at Keene State College, the New Hampshire Art Institute, and at numerous poetry workshops and festivals. She is the author of several books of poetry including Necessary Light; Small Songs of Pain; and Duties of the Spirit, winner of the 2005 Jane Kenyon Award for an Outstanding Book of Poetry. Alice Fogel is a widely-published poet and the author of three books of poetry: Be That Empty, I Love This Dark World, and Elemental. She conducts poetry workshops and presents programs on poetry through the Humanities Council’s Humanities to Go program. For more information on this event, contact Rene Brewer at 239-6350.
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