The Literature, Arts, & Environment Colloquium invites you to its third event of the spring semester on Tuesday, March 3 at 5:30pm in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 103.
We are very excited to welcome Dolores Hayden, Professor of Architecture and American Studies at Yale University, who will be reading from her poetry and presenting her talk “Decoding the American Landscape.” You can find examples of Professor Hayden’s poetry online at Poetry, American Scientist, and the Yale Review.
DOLORES HAYDEN is the author of two poetry collections, American Yard and Nymph, Dun, and Spinner. Her work is in recent or forthcoming issues of Poetry, Raritan, Shenandoah, Ecotone, and Architrave, and she’s won awards from the Poetry Society of America and the New England Poetry Club. She is also professor of architecture, urbanism, and American studies at Yale. A former president of the Urban History Association, she’s the author of several widely reviewed books on American landscape history including The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History, Building Suburbia, and A Field Guide to Sprawl.
Please join us for a lively discussion!