Stories about "Robert Farnsworth"
Video: Beautiful campus photos grace poet Robert Farnsworth’s ‘Toward Hallowe’en’

Wednesday, October 21, 2020 1:01 pm

In 2015, poet Rob Farnsworth, then a senior lecturer in English and…

An illustrated reading of ‘Toward Hallowe’en’ by Robert Farnsworth

Friday, October 30, 2015 11:08 am

Timely for evoking autumn, and timeless for its existential wit, a reading by Rob Farnsworth, senior lecturer in English, of his poem "Toward Hallowe'en," illustrated by the best of our fall photography.

Holiday greeting: A poetry reading by Robert Farnsworth

Tuesday, December 9, 2014 10:01 am

Bates poet Robert Farnsworth gives an illustrated reading of his poem “Fiction,” which was inspired by a line from Wallace Stevens, “The fire burns as the novel taught it how.”

Meet the Translations 2011 poets

Friday, October 7, 2011 2:19 pm

This year's Translations international poetry festival celebrates cross-cultural communication with visiting poets from the Americas, Europe and Japan. The festival begins at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, with a welcome, readings and a reception in Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave. Readings continue in Chase at 7 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday, Oct. 26 and 29, and at 7:30 Thursday and Friday, Oct. 27-28. For more information, please contact 207-786-8293 or gdumais@bates.edu.

Rob Farnsworth pushes students to find the write way

Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:56 am

Most students who study creative writing with Robert Farnsworth find themselves in…

Writer-in-residence Farnsworth receives 2008 Kroepsch Award

Thursday, January 31, 2008 1:29 pm

In winning the 2008 Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching, writer-in-residence Robert Farnsworth won praise from current and former students, including two alums who are prizewinning poets themselves. Farnsworth will deliver the Kroepsch address, "Psst!: Poems Teach Themselves," on Feb. 13.