With Dr. Miriam Nichols\, \;Professor Emerita at the University of Fraser Valley\, in Abbotsford\, British \;Colombia. Held in collaboration with the Gloucester Writers&rsquo\; Center
\n\nMiriam Nichols\, Professor Emerita at the University of Fraser Valley\, will give this year&rsquo\;s annual Charles Olson Lecture\, presented at the Gloucester Stage Company in partnership with the Gloucester Writers Center. Nichols will discuss Charles Olson&rsquo\;s early poems written during World War II and the ways he re-imagined the possibility of agency in the public sphere under seemingly impossible conditions. For more insight\, please view Nichols&rsquo\; abstract on our website.
\n\nIn connection with this lecture\, the Museum will be offering a tour of the Maud/Olson Library the day prior at the CAM Green on Friday\, February 7th at 3:00 p.m. To learn more about the Maud/Olson Library and its acquisition\, click \;here. To register for this tour\, please email: \;Library@capeannmuseum.org
\n\nPhoto Credit: (left) Charles Olson\, c. 1960s (right) Olson&rsquo\;s apartment at 28 Fort Square\, Gloucester\, MA\, January 11\, 1970s. Photographs by Charles A. Lowe for the \;Gloucester Daily Times. Gift of the Gloucester Daily Times / Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company\, 2004 [Accession # 2004.12]. \;
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