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UVM professor Hank Gutman discusses how William Carlos Williams changed American and world poetry forever by creating a new poetic language and new poetic forms. Gutman looks at the work and legacy of Williams in a talk entitled “William Carlos Williams: America’s Most Revolutionary Twentieth Century Poet,” is part of the Vermont Humanities Council’s First Wednesdays lecture series and is free and open to the public. Gutman’s talk will consider how Williams changed American and world poetry forever by creating a new poetic language and new poetic forms.

Huck Gutman is Professor of English at the University of Vermont, where he teaches courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American poetry, and in modern poetry in translation. A former Chair of the English Department, he has twice taught abroad as a Fulbright Fellow. He has written or edited four books, and has been a regular political columnist for major newspapers abroad.  He has returned to teaching at UVM after six years in Washington, where he served as Chief of Staff to Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

Recorded on December 7, 2016 by Maria Dominguez for BCTV as part of the First Wednesday Lecture series from the VT Humanities Council and Brooks Memorial Library.

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Wednesday, December 7, 2016 - 17:30

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