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The Society meets the second Wednesday of each
month at 1:00 p.m., from October through April. Our annual May luncheon
commemorates the birth of Robert Browning on May 7, 1812. All events
are held at our home at The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South,
New York City.
Programs for
2007-2008
Our Centennial Celebration Continues!
Programs for the 2007-08 season are …
October 10 KT Sullivan and
Steve Downey
“Forever In Joy”
Renowned actress and singing star KT Sullivan joins NYBS President Steve
Downey in this moving portrayal of the poets’ lives, woven from poetry,
correspondence, and EBB’s diary by Off Broadway playwright Bob
Griffiths.
November 14 Patricia Willis, Curator, Beinecke Library
Yale University
“The Brownings at Yale”
Ms. Willis shares highlights of the Library’s extensive Browning
collection.
December 12 Our Browning Family Holiday Celebration
Join us as we celebrate the Season with a program of our favorite poems,
letters, and reminiscences.
January 9 The Rev. Timothy Pickering
Browning's A Death in the Desert (with notes on Cleon,
Caliban, and Karshish).
An exploration of Browning's masterful imaginaning of the last days of
Saint John.
February 13 Mr. Stephen Motika, Program Coordinator
Poet’s House, New York City
“From Pessoa House to Poets House by way of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”
Mr. Motika will talk about poetic journeys.
March 12 Deborah Byrd, Associate Professor of English
Lafayette College
Program to be announced. Professor Byrd specializes in Victorian and
Romantic poetry and women’s studies. She has published on Tennyson,
Joyce, and, of course, the Brownings.
April 11 Bob Griffiths, President Emeritus
The New York Browning Society
“Browning in a Nutshell: A New Way of Hearing ‘A Tocatta of Galuppi’s’”
“Galuppi” is a microcosm of three of Browning’s poetic preoccupations
(music, history, and human nature), his dramatic imagination, and his
technique, all demonstrated in this re-creation of the “mirth and folly,
dust and ashes” of 18th-century Venice.
May 21 Annual Meeting
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