Lawrence Hart

Poet, teacher, and critical maverick Lawrence Hart (1901–1996) was one of his century’s deepest and orneriest thinkers about the art of poetry. No uncritical booster, Hart rejected the bulk of the writing that goes by the name of poetry as insufficiently exciting—and sought to define exactly what goes on in that small percentage of verse that makes the whole pursuit worthwhile.

[More info forthcoming? Would be nice to have an image of him—does the omission of legacy photos include Lawrence Hart?]

[Would you like the sidebar with Seminar info to appear on all pages of the site? If it’s a big part of the mission of the Institute, I recommend this. In mobile/phone view, the sidebar pops to the bottom.]

[If no image of LH, let me know if there’s a symbolic image that’s appropriate, or a quote, or a sample poem, or poetry book cover to spice up the page design. WordPress pages are template-based, so it’s crucial to distinguish the pages from each other using images, etc.]