CULTURAL CONVERSATIONS
Conversations will feature Roderick Hofer, PhD. Dr. Hofer
who will discuss some ways in which poetry can and cannot
refine public discourse, and using brief poems by Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Louise Glück to support
his judgments.
Roderick Hofer, Ph.D. earned his B.A. from Pace College in New York City and an M.A. and Ph.D.
from Kansas State University. His dissertation is on the poetry of W.H. Auden. He has taught at several
universities and colleges, retiring from Indian River State College in 2017 after teaching there for twenty-seven
years. He is a published poet and literary critic, having written most recently on the value of a liberal arts
curriculum, a value he clarified by a review of the conventions of drama.
May 16 | Georgia O’Keefe
Spring | Summer 2019 | MartinArts 13
April 18 | A Civil Tongue:
Poetry and the Common Good
In celebration of National Poetry Month Cultural
Having a decades long attraction to
the artwork and life of Georgia O’Keefe, Nancy
K. Turrell will take participants on a journey
through O’Keefe’s life and work as we prepare for
our Cultural Excursion to Santa Fe in July 2019.
This will be a great overview for anyone attending
the trip, but anyone who is interested in the role
O’Keefe played in art, society and Santa Fe.
Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most
significant and intriguing artists of the twentieth
century, known internationally for her boldly
innovative art. Her distinct flowers, dramatic
cityscapes, glowing landscapes, and images of
bones against the stark desert sky are iconic and
original contributions to American Modernism.
Taos Mountains 1930 by Georgia O’Keefe