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SUMMARY:Philosophy Study Group
DESCRIPTION:We will begin reading Simone de Beauvoir’s attempt to provide an ethical foundation for existentialism\, The Ethics of Ambiguity. This book is available in paperback for about $15 and as an eBook for about $10. Used copies are also available. For the 9th we’ll read Parts I and II.\n\nJust so you know\, there’s nothing ambiguous about the MISF Philosophy Study Group\, though. Our thoughtful members come from a variety of philosophical positions\, although sometimes they can be dead wrong or even a little idiotic or uncertain of where they’re going. But they’re good people\, except when some of them talk out of turn or interrupt someone. Still\, we’re glad to have them\, except when we have to ask someone to leave. However\, you’re all unambiguously welcome to come on the 9th. Most of you\, anyway.\n\nCurt
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LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Philosophy
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SUMMARY:Poetry Day
DESCRIPTION:Poetry day will feature two outstanding local poets\, Connie Wanek and Joyce Sutphen.\nEach will read from a selection of her works with time for questions and an open mic for all interested thereafter.\n\n \nConnie Wanek was born in Wisconsin\, raised in New Mexico\, and lived for over a quarter century in\nDuluth\, MN. She is the author of seven books\, including Rival Gardens: New and Selected Poems from\nUniversity of Nebraska Press\, and an eight book is forthcoming in Spring\, 2025. A book of poems for\nyounger readers\, co-authored with Ted Kooser\, was published by Candlewick Books in 2022 and won\nthe prestigious CLiPPA award in the UK. Wanek’s poems have appeared in Poetry\, \nThe Atlantic Monthly\, The Virginia Quarterly Review\, and many other publications over the years. \nShe was named a Witter Bynner Fellow of the Library of Congress and received the\nGeorge Morrison Artist of the Year Award. In 2017 a wildflower trail in Duluth’s Hartley Nature Center was named in her honor.\n\n\n\nJoyce Sutphen grew up on a farm in Stearns County\, Minnesota. Her first book of poetry\, Straight Out of View\, won the Barnard New Women’s Poets Prize Press\,1995).  Her second book of poems\, Coming Back to the Body (Holy Cow! Press\, 2000)\, was a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award\, and her third book\, Naming the Stars (Holy Cow! Press\, 2004)\, won the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry.  Her recent books are Carrying Water to the Field: New and Selected Poems (University of Nebraska Press\, 2019)\, This Long Winter (Carnegie Mellon Press 2021)\, and That Other Life (Carnegie 2023)\, and Home Words (just published by Red Dragonfly Press).  She served as the Minnesota Poet Laureate from 2011 to 2021\, succeeding Robert Bly\, and she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter\, Minnesota.\n\n 
URL:https://mnindependentscholars.org/event/poetry-day-3/
LOCATION:Shoreview Library\, 4560 Victoria St N\, Shoreview\, MN\, 55126
CATEGORIES:Monthly Forum
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