"Writing the Modern World" Exhibit Opening with curator Charlotte Scott '21 and collector Alan Klein '81

Thursday, March 4, 2021
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (ET)
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Hochberg, Rachel A
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https://ems-web.haverford.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=91797

Join us in celebrating the opening of "Writing the Modern World" with talks by curator Charlotte Scott '21 and collector Alan Klein '81!

Zoom link: https://haverford.zoom.us/j/94596471365

Visit the exhibit in the Rebecca and Rick White Gallery from March 1 to July 15, 2021.

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) and William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) are two of the 20th century’s most exemplary American poets. In a moment of crisis and change, Williams and Stevens helped further the modernist poetry movement and craft a new American poetry. This exhibit focuses on the interactions and dialogue each man had with science and technology. Developments in commerce, communication, and travel accelerated the pace of everyday life, while discoveries in physics and chemistry changed the conception of reality itself. Despite distinctions in the form and style of their work, both shared a common interest in responding to these changes and in creating a new poetry for a truly modern, and truly American, world. 

Can't visit the exhibit in person? See it online here: https://ds-omeka.haverford.edu/writing-the-modern-world/


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