Alumni Virtual Talk with Joan Aleshire '50
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Alumni are invited to join us Thursday, May 20, at 12:00 P.M. as we speak with poet and Calvert alumna Joan Aleshire '50! Joan was a member of the Warren Wilson MFA poetry faculty for 30 years, from 1983 through 2013. She has published six books of poetry, as well as multiple essays and translations.
She lives in Vermont, where she started a library and later founded the Shrewsbury Agricultural Education & Arts Foundation, or SAGE, an organization that supports sustainable farming and the arts.
She is currently at work on a novel. Her virtual alumni talk will focus on Happily, her book of poetry published in 2012, which examines a childhood of privilege and difference in a remarkable Baltimore family during the 1940s and '50s.
We will talk about her time at Calvert, which is captured in the book, and the way the combination of creativity and structure shaped her.
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She lives in Vermont, where she started a library and later founded the Shrewsbury Agricultural Education & Arts Foundation, or SAGE, an organization that supports sustainable farming and the arts.
She is currently at work on a novel. Her virtual alumni talk will focus on Happily, her book of poetry published in 2012, which examines a childhood of privilege and difference in a remarkable Baltimore family during the 1940s and '50s.
We will talk about her time at Calvert, which is captured in the book, and the way the combination of creativity and structure shaped her.
Calvert School is a coed independent lower and middle school.
