Dazed, Seduced and Transfixed: The Monster Through Time, In Literature and In Our Lives
By Vermont Humanities | October 27, 2023
Our culture is filled with manifestations of the monster. These figures span genres, from mythology to oral tradition to poetry. It is a part of our human cartography. Alongside this legacy, moments of history have sometimes raised the question: “Who is the monster?” The creatures we have created on screen and on the page, or the reflection staring back at us?
Lucy Terry Prince: Witness, Voice, and Poetics within the American Tradition
By Vermont Humanities | February 10, 2020
This exploration starts with a question: what is the arc from Lucy Terry Prince to the modern moment of the spoken word within poetry? Lucy’s poem “Bars Fight” survived for 100 years in oral tradition before appearing for the first time in 1854 in the Springfield Daily Republican.