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 

 

Join us on Fridays in March

Beginning March 8th

1:00 pm to 2:30 pm

Rummikub

Chess

Boggle

Scrabble

Scattegories

FUN– Not Competitive

Beginners are welcome.

The SHINE (Serving the Health Insurance Needs of Everyone) Program provides free health insurance information and counseling to all Massachusetts residents with Medicare and their caregivers. People who have Medicare or who are about to become eligible for Medicare can meet with a counselor to learn about benefits and options available. A counselor will review programs that help people with limited income to pay health care costs.

You need to call us at (413) 528-1881 to set up an appointment with our SHINE counselor.

 

Appointments are needed. The SHINE (Serving the Health Insurance Needs of Everyone) Program provides free health insurance information and counseling to all Massachusetts residents with Medicare and their caregivers. People who have Medicare or who are about to become eligible for Medicare can meet with a counselor to learn about benefits and options available. A counselor will review programs that help people with limited income to pay health care costs.

You need to call us at (413) 528-1881 to set up an appointment with our SHINE counselor.

 

JOIN US :  Mahjong

  • New Table
  • New Tiles
  • New Cards

 

Thursdays at 10 am

Beginners are welcome.

If you want to join –Call 528-1881 or email: plarkin@townofgb.org.

We will have 2 sets of tiles so we can have 2 games going if need be

Claire Teague Senior Center Bridge Game