Lowell Lecture
Why I Read
Date & Time
Jan. 22, 2014
Location
First Parish Church in Cambridge
3 Church Street Cambridge, MA 02138
Driving Directions
Speaker(s)
Wendy Lesser, author and essayist, founder The Threepenny Review Robert Pinsky, poet
Presenting Organization
Topics
Author and essayist Wendy Lesser explores the ways that literature and, especially, poetry touch readers and change their lives, as she discusses her latest book Why I Read with poet Robert Pinsky. In a culture that is increasingly visual and virtual in orientation, what role does old-fashioned reading play? What power does the written word have in our lives?