April Evening Program
The Rose Library at Emory University is the home of inspiring and deeply compelling poetry and literature collections that feature the papers, materials, and books of Flannery O’Connor, Alice Walker, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Natasha Trethewey, Salman Rushdie, and many more writers whose works have helped shape global cultural discourse for decades.
In 2004, Emory acquired the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, which was the most significant private library of twentieth-century English language poetry in the world. This acquisition, featuring over 85,000 volumes (first editions, broadsides, posters, serials, and much more), established the Rose Library as a crucial center for the study of twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry.
Emory’s distinctive collections and stature as a major poetry library are the culmination of shared vision and friendships between Emory librarians, faculty, administration, donors, and the authors whose papers Emory has collected, preserved, and made available to students, scholars, filmmakers, biographers, and many other communities.
Jennifer Gunter King, the Director of the Rose Library, and Nick Twemlow, the Rose Library’s Literary and Poetry Collections Librarian, will explore exciting developments in this era of collecting and research that are enabled by digital scholarship, changing modes of discovery, and the relationship- and friendship-building that supports and sustains the library.
Attendance options include in-person social hour followed by program and buffet dinner, or program only via Zoom. See below for details.
In-Person
5:30 PM CT Social hour followed by program and buffet dinner.
Ruggles Hall, The Newberry
60 W. Walton St.
Chicago, IL 60610
Cost: In-person attendance requires $75 buffet dinner purchase, including beverages.
Advance registration required via website by 5:00 PM CT, 4/15/2022.
Go to newberry.org/visit to review Newberry COVID policies.
Via Zoom Program (only)
6:30 PM CT/7:30 PM ET
Zoom presentation is free and open to all. Program will be live streamed and Zoom attendees will have an opportunity to participate in Q&A. Registration for attendance via Zoom is required.
Books
Registering for the in-person program will allow you the opportunity to pre-purchase copies of Democratic Vistas: Exploring the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library for $40.
For those not attending the in-person program, copies of Democratic Vistas: Exploring the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library may be purchased and shipped for $45.
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