BRATTLEBORO — Dartmouth professor Nancy Jay Crumbine will read and discuss Rumi, one of the greatest and most widely read spiritual poets, in a talk at Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro on March 5 at 7 p.m.
Her talk, “Rumi: A Soul on Fire,” part of the Vermont Humanities Council's First Wednesdays lecture series, is free and open to the public.
Rumi was a 13th Century Persian poet and Sufi mystic. His poems have been widely translated and have worldwide influence.
Crumbine is a poet and associate visiting professor of English at Dartmouth College. Her doctorate is in philosophy, and she has lectured widely under the auspices of the New Hampshire and Vermont humanities councils, the National Council for the Aging, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and religious and education conferences, both in the United States and the United Kingdom.
In addition to her published academic articles, she is the author of Humility, Anger, and Grace: Meditations Toward a Life that Matters (2009).
The Vermont Humanities Council's First Wednesdays series is held on the first Wednesday of every month from October through May at Brooks Memorial Library.
Upcoming Brattleboro talks include “Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Writing the Red Wheel in Vermont” with composer Ignat Solzhenitsyn on Friday, March 28 (rescheduled from February); “Soft Versus Hard Power in American Foreign Policy: Finding the Right Mix” with author Tom Powers on May 7; and “Fallingwater: An American Masterpiece” with H. Nicholas Muller III, retired executive director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, on June 4 (rescheduled from April 2).