Vermont Humanities Council * April 1, 2013
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Click on the image to continue the poem, presented in honor of the Green Mountain Film Festival, supported by a Vermont Humanities Council grant. The festival continues in St. Johnsbury, April 12-14. Join us for Thursday Thoughts, a weekly poetry exploration on Facebook and Twitter.
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TONIGHT! April 1 Events for You

Jefferson Lecture with Martin Scorsese
National Endowment for the Humanities
April 1 | Streamed Online |  7:30 PM

The 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities by Academy Award winning director Martin Scorsese will
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Martin Scorsese by Brigitte Lacombe
be live-streamed online on April 1, starting at 7:30 PM EST at NEH.gov.

 

Scorsese will discuss film, the humanities, and the art of storytelling. He will also speak with film critic and long-time collaborator, Kent Jones.   

 

Watch the webcast of the lecture and take part in the the national conversation about film and the humanities on Twitter: #JeffLec2013.

 

 

PoemCity Kick-off with Ellen Bryant Voigt 

April 1 | Vermont State House | 7 PM

 

Every April Montpelier celebrates poetry with PoemCity, a month of poetry PoemCity logo events. It kicks off tonight with a poetry reading with former Vermont poet laureate Ellen Bryant Voigt. The reading will be held in the House Chambers and will be followed by a reception in the Cedar Creek Room.

 

VHC is proud to support PoemCity with a humanities grant. Learn more about this month-long celebration of poetry.  

 

And you won't want to miss this PoemCity event on April 10 with VHC Executive Director Peter Gilbert. 

 

You Come Too: Robert Frost, a PoemCity Event

Wednesday, April 10 | 5:30 PM
Vermont Humanities Council,11 Loomis Street, Montpelier 

  

In the wake of the 50th anniversary of Robert Frost's death (January 29), Vermont Humanities Council executive director Peter Gilbert will lead a discussion of five beloved Frost poems: "The Gift Outright," "Meeting and Passing," "To Earthward," "The Need of Being Versed in Country Things," and "Birches." Read the poems in advance or upon arriving. Light refreshments. RSVPs encouraged but not required: 802.262.2626, ext. 307 or e-mail Joan Black at jblack@vermonthumanities.org. 

A Poem for the Day
Thursday Thoughts Weekly Poems via Facebook and Twitter

Enjoy weekly poems on Facebook and Twitter brought to you by the Vermont Humanities Council and the Vermont Arts Council. Look for a weekly poem on Thursday afternoons. All of the poems are from Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry in honor of VHC's Vermont Reads 2013 book. Enjoy this recent poem.

"Fat is Not a Fairy Tale" by Jane Yolen

I am thinking of a fairy tale,
Cinder Elephant,
Sleeping Tubby,
Snow Weight,
where the princess is not
anorexic, wasp-waisted,
flinging herself down the stairs.

Read the rest of the poem here

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Is Your Community Taking Part in Vermont Reads? Apply today! Deadline is May 15.

 Learn more about Vermont Reads Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry.  
First Wednesdays 2012-2013
First Wednesdays Talks April 3

(Essex Junction's talk is April 2)

All talks are at 7:00 pm. See you at First Wednesdays!

BRATTLEBORO -- What's Western about Western American Art? with Amherst College professor Carol Clark. Host and location: Brooks Memorial Library. Learn more.

* * TUESDAY, APRIL 2 * * ESSEX JUNCTION -- Lake Champlain in Under an Hour with author Jan Albers. Host and location: Brownell Library. Learn more.

MANCHESTER -- Religion and Identity in the Middle East with former president of Kenyon and Carleton Colleges and religion scholar Rob Oden. Host: Mark Skinner Library. Location: First Congregational Church. Learn more.
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Margrave Otto IV of Brandenburg, depicted in the Codex Manesse, c. 1300.

MIDDLEBURY -- Knight to Queen: Chess, Courtly Life, and the Game of Love in the Middle Ages with Dartmouth professor Jane Carroll. Host and location:
Ilsley Public Library. Learn more.

MONTPELIER -- Recognizing Vermont's Built Treasures with Middlebury College professor Glenn Andres. Host and location: Kellogg-Hubbard Library. Learn more.

NEWPORT -- The Decline of American Power in the Middle East with UVM political science professor Greg Gause Host and location: Goodrich Memorial Library. Learn more. 

NORWICH -- Rembrandt: Emotion through Pose and Gesture with Williams College professor Zirka Filipczak Hosts: Norwich Public Library and Norwich Historical Society. Location: Norwich Congregational Church. Learn more. 

RUTLAND -- Literary Paris: the 1920s in the City of Light with Dartmouth professor Barbara Will.. Host and location: Rutland Free Library. Learn more. 

* * LOCATION CHANGE * * ST. JOHNSBURY -- Free Speech Isn't What It Used to Be: Sexting and Cyberbullying Meet the Constitution with UNH law professor Sarah Redfield. Host: St. Johnsbury Athenaeum.
Location: Stewart Black Box Theater, Morse Center for the Fine Arts, St. Johnsbury Academy. Learn more.

Learn what talks will be taking place in a community near you.
Civil War Book of Days -- Marking Events that Happened Each Week During the Civil War
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VHC's weekly Civil War Book of Days marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. It commemorates what happened each week 150 years ago.

Read some of the latest editions of this e-newsletter.

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Civil War Sesquicentennial Symposium | April 27, 2013 

Presented by the Maine Historical Society and Maine Humanities Council. Learn more.
Humanities Commentaries on VPR
Each month, VHC's Executive Director Peter Gilbert presents commentaries on Vermont Public Radio that examine current and past events from a humanities perspective.

Henry V at 600 (3-20-2013) It's rare that one can note a 600th anniversary, but it was six hundred years ago today that England's Henry V became king upon the death of his father, Henry IV. Commentator and Vermont Humanities Council executive director Peter Gilbert has the story.

The Fire Next Time (2-12-13) In January 1963, fifty years ago, the great American writer James Baldwin published a famous book entitled The Fire Next Time. It was a profoundly influential statement about race relations in the midst of the Civil Rights movement. Here's Vermont Humanities Council executive director Peter Gilbert with these thoughts.

Frost's Final Days (1-28-13) Robert Frost died fifty years ago tomorrow at the age of eighty-eight. Peter Gilbert tells us about the last days of a man that scholars generally now recognize as one of America's greatest poets. 
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The Vermont Humanities Council presents more than 1,200 events every year. Thank you for your interest in lifelong learning!

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Sylvia Plumb, Director of Communications
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