Concordance: An Evening with Susan Howe

Award-winning American poet Susan Howe visited Harvard Divinity School on April 24 to speak about the binding together of freedom and law, spontaneity and habit, as occasions for awakening a reader to the exaltation of spirit in process. Crossing the guarded borders between image and word, individual and community, history and the present, poetry provides an opening to the transcendent order that chance makes possible. Susan Howe's collection of poems, That This, won the Bollingen Prize in 2011. In 2017 she received the Robert Frost award for distinguished lifetime achievement in American poetry. Full transcript here: https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2019/04/24/concordance-susan-howe Learn more about Harvard Divinity School and its mission to illuminate, engage, and serve at http://hds.harvard.edu/.