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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

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Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
June 19
Time:
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Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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413-528-1881
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Date:
June 19
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Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
October 9
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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413-528-1881
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Date:
October 9
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Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
January 29, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Date:
January 29, 2025
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Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
May 21, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Date:
May 21, 2025
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Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
June 26
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Date:
June 26
Time:
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Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
October 16
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Date:
October 16
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Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
February 5, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Date:
February 5, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
View Venue Website

OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
July 3
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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413-528-1881
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Date:
July 3
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Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
October 23
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Date:
October 23
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Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
View Venue Website

OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
February 12, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Date:
February 12, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
View Venue Website

OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
July 10
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Date:
July 10
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
View Venue Website

OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
October 30
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Details

Date:
October 30
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
View Venue Website

OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
February 19, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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413-528-1881
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Date:
February 19, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
July 17
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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413-528-1881
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Date:
July 17
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
November 6
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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413-528-1881
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Date:
November 6
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
February 26, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Date:
February 26, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
July 24
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Date:
July 24
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
November 13
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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413-528-1881
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Date:
November 13
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
March 5, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
View Organizer Website

Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Details

Date:
March 5, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
View Organizer Website

Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
July 31
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Date:
July 31
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
November 20
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Date:
November 20
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
March 12, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Details

Date:
March 12, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
April 17
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Details

Date:
April 17
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
August 7
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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413-528-1881
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Date:
August 7
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
November 27
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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413-528-1881
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Date:
November 27
Time:
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Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
March 19, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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413-528-1881
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Date:
March 19, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
April 24
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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413-528-1881
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Date:
April 24
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
August 14
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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413-528-1881
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Date:
August 14
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
December 4
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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413-528-1881
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Date:
December 4
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
March 26, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Date:
March 26, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
May 1
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Date:
May 1
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
August 21
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Date:
August 21
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
December 11
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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413-528-1881
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Date:
December 11
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
April 2, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Date:
April 2, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
May 8
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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413-528-1881
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Details

Date:
May 8
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
August 28
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Details

Date:
August 28
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
View Organizer Website

Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
December 18
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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413-528-1881
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Date:
December 18
Time:
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Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
April 9, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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413-528-1881
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Date:
April 9, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
May 15
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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413-528-1881
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Date:
May 15
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
September 4
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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413-528-1881
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Date:
September 4
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
December 25
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Date:
December 25
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
April 16, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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413-528-1881
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Date:
April 16, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
May 22
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Details

Date:
May 22
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
September 11
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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413-528-1881
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Date:
September 11
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
January 1, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Date:
January 1, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
April 23, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Date:
April 23, 2025
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
May 29
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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Details

Date:
May 29
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
View Organizer Website

Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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OLLI – Poetry Class

June 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Series

Poems That Might be Great | Don Barkin

Wednesdays 11:30 am– 1:30 p.m.

In-person at the Claire Teague Center in Great Barrington

Limit: 15

Six Sessions; 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Course Description: What makes a poem great? This spring we’ll read some of the most famous poems in English, and along the way try to figure out what “great” means. Here’s a sampling we’ll choose from: Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz…,” Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” W. H.    Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” Frost’s “Home Burial,” Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” Bishop’s “The Armadillo,” Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” an excerpt from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moore’s “Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight,” and Shakespeare’s “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Instructor Bio: Don Barkin has degrees from Harvard College and Cambridge University. He taught seminars for a number of years at Yale and Wesleyan Universities.  The author of three books of poetry, he has also been a newspaper reporter and school teacher.

Registration will open March 5 at 9 a.m. – berkshireolli.org

Class registration fees for OLLI members:

$50 for 1 course ~ $95 for 2 or 3 courses ~ $125 for 4 +courses within a semester 

 

Details

Date:
September 18
Time:
Series:

Organizer

Claire Teague Senior Center
Phone
413-528-1881
Email
action@greatbarringtonseniors.org
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Venue

Claire Teague Senior Center
917 S Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230 United States
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Phone
413-528-1881
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