Alderton House Cultural Evenings return for fall online with an author night:
Weird and Wild Beauty in Flannery O’Connor’s Writings
A Conversation with Poet and Professor Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
Monday, November 2, 2020
7:30- 9:00 pm EST via Zoom
“Flannery O’Connor had a penchant for the weird & the wild and a gift for finding beauty in both. After writing 101 poems in her voice, I have come to appreciate the strangeness she admired and become a convert to her brand of beauty. For what is symmetry, proportion, wholeness, and perfection—all classical ideals of beauty—set beside the homely, the lonely, the plain, and the maimed?” -- Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
Join us for an insightful conversation and Q&A about Flannery O'Connor's writings with Angela Alaimo O’Donnell--a writer, poet, and professor at Fordham University in New York City where she teaches English, Creative Writing, and American Catholic Studies. O'Donnell also serves as Associate Director of the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies. Her critical biography, Flannery O’Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith (2015), won first prize for excellence in biography from the Association of Catholic Publishers. She is the author of 8 books of poems, among them, Andalusian Hours: Poems from the Porch of Flannery O’Connor a collection of 101 poems that channel the voice of fiction writer Flannery O’Connor.
Recommended reading for those interested in participating in the Q&A:
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