Reading: Thomas Disch

Presenter Information

Thomas Disch

Location

Chester Fritz Auditorium

Event Website

http://www.undwritersconference.org

Start Date

27-3-2003 8:00 PM

End Date

27-3-2003 10:00 PM

Description

In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, March 27, 2003, as part of the 34th Annual UND Writers Conference: "Art & Science," Thomas Disch reads a selection of his work. Disch reads "Dreams: A Darwinian View" and "Questions Your Children Are Certain to Ask" from Yes, Let’s: New and Selected Poems, “Why the Sky is Blue,” “What I Learned at MIT,” and “The Mini Verse” from an issue of North Dakota Quarterly, “A Letter to Robert Bly,” “Villanelle for Charles Olson,” and “The Future of the Book" from The Castle of Perseverance: Job Opportunities in Contemporary Poetry, and “On the Use of Masculine Preferred” from A Children's Garden of Grammar. Disch also reads from his essay “The Future of the Book.” Disch also responds to questions from the audience.

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Mar 27th, 8:00 PM Mar 27th, 10:00 PM

Reading: Thomas Disch

Chester Fritz Auditorium

In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, March 27, 2003, as part of the 34th Annual UND Writers Conference: "Art & Science," Thomas Disch reads a selection of his work. Disch reads "Dreams: A Darwinian View" and "Questions Your Children Are Certain to Ask" from Yes, Let’s: New and Selected Poems, “Why the Sky is Blue,” “What I Learned at MIT,” and “The Mini Verse” from an issue of North Dakota Quarterly, “A Letter to Robert Bly,” “Villanelle for Charles Olson,” and “The Future of the Book" from The Castle of Perseverance: Job Opportunities in Contemporary Poetry, and “On the Use of Masculine Preferred” from A Children's Garden of Grammar. Disch also reads from his essay “The Future of the Book.” Disch also responds to questions from the audience.

https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/2003/day3/3