{"id":44660,"date":"2003-10-08T10:39:31","date_gmt":"2003-10-08T14:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=44660"},"modified":"2024-07-08T13:41:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T17:41:08","slug":"poet-pattiann-rogers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2003\/10\/08\/poet-pattiann-rogers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationally acclaimed poet Pattiann Rogers to speak at Bates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2003\/10\/pattiann-rogers-web1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"210\" height=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2003\/10\/pattiann-rogers-web1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Pattiann Rogers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Award-winning poet Pattiann Rogers presents a talk titled &#8220;Life in an Expanding Universe&#8221; for the 2003 Philip J. Otis lecture at Bates College at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22, in the Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Otis Endowment at Bates, the lecture is open to the public at no charge. For more information, please call 207-786-8204.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Linked to Annie Dillard, D.H. Lawrence and Walt Whitman, Rogers is known for verse that both embraces the natural world and unfolds the complexities of science. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen nature observed as closely, nor transfigured by human language, as in Pattiann Rogers&#8217; poetry,&#8221; said Roald Hoffmann, Nobel laureate in chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>Too, Rogers explores the essence of divinity, love and intimacy. Her &#8220;musical, lushly rhythmic lines show well the deep connection between the erotic and the holy that Rogers explores,&#8221; wrote reviewer Susan Carlisle in the Harvard Review.<\/p>\n<p>Her works include <em>Song of the World Becoming: Poems New and Collected, 1981-200<\/em>1 (Milkweed Editions, 2001) and <em>The Dream of the Marsh Wren: Writing as Reciprocal Creation<\/em> (Milkweed, 1999). Publishers Weekly selected her sixth book, <em>Firekeeper: New and Selected Poems<\/em> (Milkweed) as one of the Best Books Published in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Missouri, Rogers graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor&#8217;s degree from the University of Missouri in 1961. She earned an M.A. from the University of Houston in 1981. Now a Colorado resident, she has received numerous grants and awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a poetry fellowship from the Lannan Foundation and five Pushcart Prizes.<\/p>\n<p>The annual Otis Lecture at Bates is funded by the Philip J. Otis Endowment, established in 1996 by a gift from Margaret V. B. and C. Angus Wurtele in memory of their son, Philip, a member of the class of 1995 who died attempting to rescue an injured climber on Mount Rainier.<\/p>\n<p>In recognition of Otis&#8217; appreciation for nature, the endowment helps support Bates programs with an environmental focus, in particular those exploring the spiritual and moral dimensions of humanity&#8217;s relationship with the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award-winning poet Pattiann Rogers presents a talk titled &#8220;Life in an Expanding Universe&#8221; for the 2003 Philip J. 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