28 Short Lectures: Mary Ruefle | Woodberry Poetry Room

Mary Ruefle’s encyclopedic, sagacious, hilarious and humane “28 Short Lectures“ include meditations on such subjects as prayer, Shakespeare, Van Morrison, lying, evolution, hypocrisy, and loneliness. This presentation served as the inaugural lecture in the Woodberry Poetry Room’s series, “Discursives“—which invites poets to wax Emersonian in the very chapel where Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered his provocative Divinity School Address and to speak on subjects within and beyond the bounds of poetry and literatu