Nightviews speaker series presents
Poetry at Parker:
An evening of original works shared by Parker poets
Thursday, December 8 | 7 pm
Diane and David B Heller Auditorium
Parker invites the school community to a special Nightviews presentation celebrating poetry, hosted by Principal Dan Frank.
English teacher Matt Laufer will play MC as Parker parent, alumna and prize-winning poet and editor Elise Paschen ’77 joins teachers Theresa Collins, George Drury, David Fuder, Mike Mahany, Bonnie Seebold and Kate Tabor, along with students Patrick Hartman ’12, Izzy Kadish ’12, Ana Marx ’14, Megan Randolph ’12, Rachel Steindler ’13 and Lauren Wiebe ’12, to share their original works in the intimate, on-stage seating area of the Diane and David B Heller Auditorium.
Following the reading, the poets will participate in a question and answer session, moderated by English Department Chair Mike Mahany and Paschen.
This is the first in a series of poetry readings open to all. Information about future readings will be available soon.
Parker’s Nightviews speaker series provides a forum for conversation on world perspectives featuring talks on current educational, political, cultural, social, psychological and scientific issues.
Elise Paschen, Ph.D., is the author of, most recently, Bestiary, as well as Infidelities, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, and Houses: Coasts. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The New Republic, The New Yorker and Poetry magazine. She has edited many anthologies, including the New York Times bestsellers Poetry Speaks and Poetry Speaks to Children. Co-founder and co-editor of Poetry in Motion, a program that places poetry placards in subway cars and buses, she is the former executive director of the Poetry Society of America. Dr. Paschen teaches in the M.F.A. Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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