Book Groups

Longfellow Slate ProfileBOOK DISCUSSION GROUPS

Book discussion groups will be scheduled in the next few weeks.  Please read through the list of dates and times below to find a group that best meets your schedule.  Each discussion group will meet for one hour.  Participants are expected to have read the poems indicated and to have read the National Endowment Reader's Guide. Please call the Wayside Inn at 978/443-1776 to reserve a space or e-mail Program Director Cindy Hall Kouré.  You can pick up copies of the anthology and the Reader's Guide at the events that will be listed below.

DATE and TIME: TO BE ANNOUNCED

Location: Longfellow's Wayside Inn

Discussion Leader: Longfellow Big Read Project Director Cindy Hall Kouré

BOOKLIST
The bibliography provided below is a list of current Longfellow biographies and poetry anthologies. We hope you will join us in rediscovering the importance of this country’s most successful poet!

Applebaum, Stanley (Editor), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Favorite Poems, Dover Publications
A short anthology of Longfellow’s most well-known works.
  Favorite Poems - Tan
Boggs, Colleen Glenney, Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation 1773-1892, Routledge

Calhoun, Charles C., Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life, Beacon Press

Gioia, Dana, Disappearing Ink, Graywolf Press

Irmscher, Christoph, Longfellow Redux, University of Illinois Press

Irmscher, Christoph, Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200, Harvard Library Bulletin, Fall/Winter 2006

McClatchy, J.D. (Editor), Longfellow Poems and Other Writings, Library of America

CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT BOOKS

Bing, Christopher (Illustrator), Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, Handprint Books

Hughes, Libby and Marian Carlson, American Genius, iUniverse, Inc.

Lang, Glenna (Illustrator), The Children’s Hour, David R. Godine

Lukes, Bonnie L., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: America's Beloved Poet, Morgan Reynolds Publishing

Jeffers, Susan, Hiawatha, Puffin Books

Santore, Charles (Illustrator), Paul Revere's Ride: The Landlord's Tale, HarperCollins

Schoonmaker, Frances (Editor), Poetry for Young People, Sterling Publishing

NEA Big Read
The Longfellow Big Read at Longfellow's Wayside Inn is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.

For more information on The Big Read, visit www.neabigread.org.

The 2010 Longfellow Big Read is made possible through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Sudbury Foundation.
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