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Ellmann Lectures Return March 3-5

Those who appreciate literature’s ability to move, challenge, and delight readers have someplace important to be — the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts — from March 3-5.

The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature resume with the arrival of poet Natasha Trethewey and writer Fintan O’Toole. Their lectures will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of Nobel Prize–winner Seamus Heaney, the inaugural Ellmann Lecturer, by deepening the love of words both spoken and written.

Trethewey and O’Toole have significant scholarly connections to Heaney and will lecture on the theme “Writing Lives,” examining the intersections of art, life, and writing.

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