Lee Scheingold: Grieving, Sponsoring Public Poetry & Scholarship, & Writing ’One Silken Thread’

Lee Scheingold, sponsor of the "Lee Scheingold Lecture in Poetry & Poetics" and "Literature, Language, Culture: A Dialogue Series" shares why she created support for these projects. In this episode, you will learn more about her relationship to grieving her late husband and renowned scholar, Stuart Scheingold, about poetry as a way through grieving, and about what she believes poetry and humanities scholarship can offer for a move love and care. Key texts range from "Grief is the Thing with Feathres" to "One Silken Thread." Watch the video edition on our YouTube Channel, "Literature, Language, Culture": ✔︎ http://bit.ly/uwsubscribe. This episode was produced by the "Literature, Language Culture" Series Editor and Public Scholarship Project Director, C. R. Grimmer, and "Literature, Language Culture" Project Manager Jacob Huebsch.

This video is the ninth in a public scholarship dialogue series from The University of Washington (Seattle Campus) Department of English: "Literature, Language, Culture." These video and podcast episodes share our innovative work in fostering intellectual vitality, inspiring enthusiasm for literature, honing critical insight into the ethical and creative uses of the English language, preparing future teachers, and crafting the stories that animate our world. More on the Department of English at The University of Washington: ✔︎ https://english.washington.edu/