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X-WR-CALNAME:Robert Frost: America’s Poet and American Politics
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DESCRIPTION:When: Thursday\, November 12\, 2026\, reception 5:00 to 5:30\, 
 panel discussion 5:30 to 7:00 pm\nWhere: Duane Physics G130 (DUAN G130)\nI
 n-person registration\n\n \n\nIn this discussion\, panelists will examine 
 the life and legacy of Robert Frost\, as it intersects with American polit
 ics. Frost is arguably the most recognizable American poet in the world\, 
 yet his career has been marked by a complex relationship with American pol
 itics. As the United States’ first Poet Laureate\, the first poet to rea
 d at a presidential inauguration\, and one of JFK’s cultural emissaries 
 to the USSR\, Frost saw himself as wielding poetic power in the service of
  American civic life at home\, and American “soft power” abroad. This 
 panel will explore the role of poetry and the arts in civic life\, asking 
 what role poetry might have in shaping the virtues of a citizen.\n\n \n\nP
 anelists:\nRobert Bernard Hass is Executive Director of the Robert Frost S
 ociety and Professor of English at PennWest University (Edinboro). He is t
 he author of Going by Contraries: Robert Frost’s Conflict with Science a
 nd co-editor of The Letters of Robert Frost\, and his poetry and criticism
  have appeared in Poetry\, the Sewanee Review\, and other journals.\n\nRob
 ert W. Crawford is Director of Frost Farm Poetry in Derry\, New Hampshire\
 , which includes the Hyla Brook Reading Series\, the Frost Farm Poetry Con
 ference\, and the Frost Farm Poetry Prize. He was named the first Poet Lau
 reate of Derry\, New Hampshire\, and is the author of two poetry collectio
 ns\, including the Richard Wilbur Award–winning The Empty Chair.\n\nJose
 ph Bottum is the Benson Center’s Visiting Scholar in Conservative Though
 t and Policy. A former literary editor of the Weekly Standard and editor o
 f First Things\, he is the author of numerous books spanning philosophy\, 
 literature\, and American religion\, including An Anxious Age and\, most r
 ecently\, the poetry collection This Far Country. He holds a PhD in philos
 ophy from Boston College.\n\nMartin Bickman is Professor of English at the
  University of Colorado Boulder\, where he has taught since 1974. A schola
 r of American literature and education\, he is the author of Minding Ameri
 can Education: Reclaiming the Tradition of Active Learning and Walden: Vol
 atile Truths.\n\n \n\nModerator:\nMarissa Grunes is a literary scholar and
  science writer at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Herbst Program f
 or Engineering\, Ethics & Society. She holds a PhD in English Literature f
 rom Harvard University\, and her writing on literature\, science\, and the
  environment has appeared in the Boston Review\, Nautilus\, and Atlas Obsc
 ura\, among other publications.
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LOCATION:Duane Physics and Astrophysics\, G130
SUMMARY:Robert Frost: America’s Poet and American Politics
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CATEGORIES:Community Engagement
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