Becoming familiar with the frogs that live in Mayville may make one a better poet. Or, at least, a better person — one who is more in tune with the world around him or her.
Students in Week Two’s workshops at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center will learn how to use their unique authorial voices and how to look to nature for inspiration. Kim T. Griswell will serve as the
When Philip Gerard was a child, he made a list of some of the things he wanted to accomplish in life: he wanted to fall in love, sail the ocean, go to Alaska and make
Ann Patchett will be one of the first few guests on the morning lecture platform at Chautauqua Institution this year, but the person who actually convinced her to come is visiting much later in
His story has been told countless times over thousands of years by innumerable artists. Michelangelo sculpted him, Caravaggio painted him and Gregory Peck played him. Now, Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks will tell Chautauquans
The title may be a riff on a whimsical Dr. Seuss book, but poet Philip Terman’s Brown Bag will address a common fear for writers: where writing goes after it’s written. Terman is the poet-in-residence
The Susquehanna Chorale first visited Chautauqua Institution in 2013, and when it takes the Amphitheater stage tonight, the group will perform a program directly tied to one of Chautauqua’s own. The group will perform its
Roger Rosenblatt has established himself as a regular at Chautauqua Institution. He is a frequent lecturer, and according to Rosenblatt, he’s visited “3,000,872” times since he started coming to the Institution in the 1980s. “And
Nathaniel Hawthorne lived briefly at the utopian Brook Farm in 1841. After growing tired of political unrest and shoveling manure, he returned home and married his fiancée, Sophia Peabody. He dramatized his stay at Brook
Philip Terman, a poet and Clarion University professor, will have his latest book highlighted Wednesday (6/17/15), on poet Garrison Keillor's NPR show. Week One at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center will be a tale of two
The Chautauqua Writers’ Center will welcome a diverse range of writing talent as well as a new interim director in its 2016 season. Fred Zirm, president of the Chautauqua Literary Arts Friends, will serve as