Join host Joseline Yu for a discussion on Ovid's Metamorphoses to unravel the threads of chaos, love and lust weaved throughout the narrative poem's mythical tales, as part of the Western Canon Book Club series. Ovid's Metamorphoses stitches together various myths to create an all-encompassing story of the changes in history since the creation of the…
Join Topi Heikkerö to read and discuss Emily Dickinson’s classic poems. In this salon, we’ll dive into three powerful poems by Emily Dickinson. The emphasis is more on her vision of life, rather than technical analysis of her writing. The promise is that Dickinson can open up the world and life in ways that are…
Interested in cultivating your inner poet? Join us for Poems for Our Time where we'll slow down, explore contemporary poetry, and connect with our creativity. Hosted by writer, workshop facilitator, and…
Interested in cultivating your inner poet? Join us for Poems for Our Time where we'll slow down, explore contemporary poetry, and connect with our creativity. Hosted by writer, workshop facilitator, and meditation teacher, Grace Bialecki. Poetry is a place of solace, a place of mystery, a place where we can delve deeper into life’s questions and…
Join host Joseline Yu to uncover the intricacies of courtly love in Marie de France's lais, as part of the Western Canon Book Club series. Each of Marie de France's lais is a short French poem containing an adventure set in Brittany a long time ago. These adventures blend supernatural elements and chivalrous deeds with…
Interested in cultivating your inner poet? Join us for Poems for Our Time where we'll slow down, explore contemporary poetry, and connect with our creativity. Hosted by writer, workshop facilitator, and meditation teacher, Grace Bialecki. Poetry is a place of solace, a place of mystery, a place where we can delve deeper into life’s questions and…
Explore with Joseline Yu the dangerous games played to test a knight's virtue in the Middle English romance poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," as part of the Western Canon Book Club series. In place of fights to the death that readers of older epic poetry are familiar with, games are played in "Sir…
Interested in cultivating your inner poet? Join us for Poems for Our Time where we'll slow down, explore contemporary poetry, and connect with our creativity. Hosted by writer, workshop facilitator, and…
Anna Motz and Maggie Fishman are in conversation about the creation of safe, non-judgemental places where children and adults can learn about themselves and the world.
Writer Henry Oliver joins the Western Canon Book Club series for a salon about three unusual Shakespearean kings. What do Hamlet, Prospero, and Richard III have in common? They are…
Join writer and meditation teacher, Grace Bialecki, for the next episode of a new New York City IRL series, 'Expansive Conversations,' where we'll discuss poetry, authenticity, and self-actualization. How does…
Whether you know the economist and poet Zoë Hitzig from her landmark paper co-authored with Vitalik Buterin and our friend Glen Weyl or her powerful pieces of literature, it is clear she's one of the rare individuals who understand what's going on with people right here, right now, on both the analytical and lyrical levels.…
