Written by Eli Dean \/\/ Photo by Eli Dean<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Harding welcomed poet Brad Leithauser to recite some poems from his new book \u201cRhyme\u2019s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry\u201d <\/em>on Nov. 2. The MacArthur Fellowship award-winning poet was invited to Harding after English Department Chair Jon Singleton read Leithauser\u2019s book over the summer and was intrigued by the themes of his poetry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHis book is the perfect book for people to be drawn back into poetry,\u201d Singleton said. \u201cHe\u2019s writing mostly for people that have read a little bit of poetry but have kind of grown away from it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n For those who might not be into poetry, Singleton said that the way the book is constructed makes it readable to any type of poetry reader, from beginner to poetry enthusiast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen you read this book, it introduces you to one poet after another and all of these great poems you\u2019ve never seen before,\u201d Singleton said. \u201cHe gives you just enough to where it will make you want to read more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n For Leithauser himself, his introduction to poetry came from his mother when he was a child, and he still holds those moments close to him as he furthers his career as a poetry writer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy mother was a poet when I was growing up, and when I was a child she would pay me a penny for every line of poetry that I would memorize,\u201d Leithauser said. \u201cSo that was my first allowance: reciting lines of poetry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Several classes in the English department were in attendance for the event. Freshman Ella Fox said that she got a lot out of listening to Leithauser recite some of his and other poets\u2019 poems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI am in the [Introduction to Literary Studies] class this year and Dr. Singleton recommended I come to listen to [Leithauser],\u201d Fox said. \u201cI thought it was really interesting because even though poetry isn\u2019t really one of the aspects I\u2019m looking into for my studies, I thought it was a good introduction into that world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the key talking points of the lecture was how Leithauser created his poetry and the situations in life that left him inspired to write poems. Fox said she liked how Leithauser explained that process and how he structured his poems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHe talked a lot about his inspirations to his poetry and how he wrote some of his poems, and how he looked at poetry,\u201d Fox said. \u201cIt was very different than a lot of other times I had been taught to look at poetry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Written by Eli Dean \/\/ Photo by Eli Dean Harding welcomed poet Brad Leithauser to recite some poems from his new book \u201cRhyme\u2019s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry\u201d on Nov.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15068,"featured_media":19081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15068"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19085,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19080\/revisions\/19085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}