Video: Lannan Symposium Poets in Action
Professors Henry Schwarz, Carolyn Forché and Mark McMorris talk about their work on the 2009 Lannan Literary Symposium and Festival. Poets from the event read their compositions on war, witness and remembrance. (Video: Natalie H. Stewart, Kuna Malik Hamad and S. Todd Chappell)
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"Cry Havoc!" Georgetown Hosts Influential Poets for Symposium
The gilded interior of Gaston Hall filled with the sounds of subdued chatter on March 30th, 2009, as the expectant audience waited for the program to begin. This was the beginning of "Cry Havoc! Poetry of War and Remembrance 1968-2008," the 2009 Lannan Literary Symposium and Festival at Georgetown.