August 17th, 2016 2 – pm
Poetry Reading and Talk
Dr Ellen Louise Hart to speak at Mathias Fine Art
Mathias Fine Art is honored to host a poetry reading and talk entitled The War Poets by Dr Ellen Louise Hart on Wednesday August 17 from 2 – 3pm. Dr Hart has for more than 35 years taught writing and American Literature in universities on the West Coast. She has followed Bettinson’s work since the late eighties.
Dr Hart’s presentation was triggered by her reaction to the new series of paintings by Brenda Bettinson which is currently on view at Mathias Fine Art: The Earth Remembers. The paintings are a meditation on the death and destruction wrought on the battlefields of northern France and Belgium during the First World War. When she saw them, Dr Hart immediately recalled the writings of American and British poets and novelists who took that war for their theme: poetry such as those by Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, and the unforgettable prose descriptions of William Faulkner. For more information contact the gallery at 207-633-7404 and read more at the link:
http://www.boothbayregister.com/article/war-poets-readings-and-discussion-dr-ellen-hart/74000
