Access to Bread Loaf Lecture Series Summer 2021
Sign up to hear veteran Bread Loaf faculty members presenting new and original work this summer! Every ticket supports the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences and allows us to provide high quality instruction, mentorship, and community to writers.
Please purchase a ticket, subscribe to the whole series, or consider paying it forward with a donation to support us in making this programming available to every interested writer, regardless of funding.
Lecture Tickets and Information
June Lecture Series - June 6 to 12, 2021
June Lecture Ticket, $25
Subscription to the June Lecture Series (includes seven lectures for BL Environmental and BL Translators’), $100
August Lecture Series - August 8 to 21, 2021
August Lecture Ticket, $25
Subscription to the August Lecture Series (includes twenty lectures), $250
Events will be hosted live on Crowdcast with continued access to recordings available through the fall for all ticket holders.
Closed captioning is available for live Bread Loaf events.
Financial aid is available for the Lecture Series; contact us for more information at blwc@middlebury.edu.
Lecture Series Schedule
All times noted below are EST. Please note that once logged into Crowdcast, the program will calculate to your local time zone. To avoid confusion, please plan accordingly.
JUNE LECTURE SERIES
Sunday, June 6 to Saturday, June 12
Sunday, June 6
4:00 p.m. Welcome by Conferences Director Jennifer Grotz
5:30 p.m. Lecture by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, “Ghostlily Along, Bloodily Biting: Using Nocturnes and Palinodes to Jump Start Nature Poems”
7:00 p.m. Readings by Geoffrey Brock and Padma Viswanathan (free event)
Monday, June 7
4:30 p.m. Lecture by Kareem James Abu-Zeid, “On Translating Poetry: Compensation and Creation”
Tuesday, June 8
4:30 p.m. Lecture by David Hinton, “Translating Cultures, Transforming Cultures”
Wednesday, June 9
4:30 p.m. Lecture by Dan Chiasson, “Counting in Emily Dickinson”
Thursday, June 10
4:30 p.m. Lecture by Jody Gladding, “On Su Hui’s ‘Map of the Armillary Sphere’ and Its Possibilities for Translation”
Friday, June 11
4:30 p.m. Lecture by Kazim Ali, “Decolonial Research Methodologies”
Saturday, June 12
4:30 p.m. Lecture by Jennifer Croft, “Translation and Hybrid Writing”
7:00 p.m. Readings by Pam Houston and J. Drew Lanham (free event)
AUGUST LECTURE SERIES
Sunday, August 8 to Saturday, August 21
Sunday, August 8
4:00 p.m. Welcome by Conferences Director Jennifer Grotz
5:30 p.m. Lecture by Carl Phillips, “On the Writing Life”
Monday, August 9
4:30 p.m. Lecture by Jess Row, “Friend to Friend in the Endtime: Imagining Solidarity, Writing the Future”
Tuesday, August 10
11:00 a.m. Lecture by Reginald Dwayne Betts, “The I as Multitudes”
4:30 p.m. Lecture by Jane Brox, “The Art of Describing”
Wednesday, August 11
4:30 p.m. Lecture by Craig Morgan Teicher, “Literature in Real Time”
Thursday, August 12
11:00 a.m. Lecture by Tania James, “An Anatomy of Surprise in Fiction”
4:30 p.m. Lecture by Paisley Rekdal, “White Elegies: On Whiteness and Cultural Appropriation in Poetry”
Friday, August 13
4:30 p.m. Lecture by Matthew Olzmann, “Slightly Odd or Profoundly Bizarre: Notes on Defamiliarization”
Saturday, August 14
11:00 a.m. Lecture by Tiphanie Yanique, “Fiction Forms”
4:30 p.m. Lecture by Reyna Grande, “Through a Child’s Eyes; Childhood Memoirs and Their Narrators”
Sunday, August 15
5:30 p.m. Lecture by Charles Baxter, “Charisma and Characterization”
Monday, August 16
4:30 p.m. Lecture by Vievee Francis, “’Magnitude and Bond’: Imagery and the Sensual in the Work of Gwendolyn Brooks and Lucille Clifton”
Tuesday, August 17
11:00 a.m. Lecture by Victoria Chang, “’A Belief in Angels’: Joy in Poetry”
4:30 p.m. Lecture by Dean Bakopoulos, “Creatures of Impulse: What Fiction Writers Can Learn from TV”
Wednesday, August 18
4:30 p.m. Lecture by Ana Menéndez, “Fragmentation, Witness, and the (Power) Structure of Story”
Thursday, August 19
11:00 a.m. Lecture by Gabrielle Calvocoressi, “Remember When We Talked About the Future? Memory and Aspiration in Poems”
4:30 p.m. Lecture by Peter Ho Davies, “The Art of Revision”
Friday, August 20
4:30 p.m. Lecture by Brenda Shaughnessy, “Debut Books of Poetry: Notes on Sounding Like Yourself”
Saturday, August 21
11:00 a.m. Lecture by Jericho Brown, “The New Made New: Revisiting to Stephen Henderson”
4:30 p.m. Lecture by Alexander Chee, “What Is the Novel For?”
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