On Being Witness to Poetry and Civility

Authors

Gary McDowell, Belmont UniversityFollow

Abstract

The poets Traci Brimhall and Keith Montesano joined us for a poetry reading at this year's Humanities Symposium. Their work, though different aesthetically, speaks to the intersection of violence and nature, humanity and ruin. Brimhall and Montesano seek to understand the unknowable through language, exploring elegy, myth and every form of rapture. Embedded in these searches is also the very nature of civility.

Keywords

Humanities Symposium

Recommended Citation

McDowell, Gary (2012) "On Being Witness to Poetry and Civility," Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal: Vol. 3, Article 8.
Available at: https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium_journal/vol3/iss1/8