An Astonishing Poet
The past year's opening program was a tribute to Baltimore's Josephine Jacobsen, "a simply astonishing poet," who had died in July 2004 at age 94. "Jacobsen's quietly articulated
observations have the dark resonance of great art," said the American Academy of Arts and Letters. "Her best work, done in her seventies and eighties, has won her almost every
major poetry award."
Readings and reminiscences were offered on October 10 by fellow poets Lucille Clifton, Michael Collier, and Elizabeth Spires in the new Instructional Laboratory Building at Howard Community College. Projected on the wide screen, a brief DVD, fashioned from HoCoPoLitSo archival tape of Ms. Jacobsen reading several poems at age 74, made a moving conclusion to the evening.
Past Events
Speaking of Healing HoCoPoLitSo, in partnership with the Tai Sophia Institute, host local writers Anne Barney, Ann Bracken, Mike Clark and Brendan Donegan... Read more
Sherman Alexie: Film Discussion HoCoPoLitSo, in partnership with The Columbia Film Society and Howard Community College’s Mediation and Conflict Resolution Center, present... Read more
Sherman Alexie: Author Reading The Howard Community College Book Connection Project, in partnership with HoCoPoLitSo, presents Sherman Alexie, author of Reservation Blues. Read more
30 Years of Distinguished Programming HoCoPoLitSo, completes thirty years of distinguished public programming in literature... Read more
An Astonishing Poet The past year's opening program was a tribute to Baltimore's Josephine Jacobsen, "a simply astonishing poet,"... Read more
HoCoPoLitSo's 26th Annual Irish Evening Mary O'Malley, a fisherman's daughter from the Irish-speaking west of Ireland, the remarkable eldest of ten children, was the featured poet. Read more
Student Activities Reading and discussion visits of Dr. Jean Nordhaus who visited eleven high schools... Read more