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Casual Conversations: Arthur Fergenson and SCOTUS, January 17, 2021

After a November break following John Mathias’s presentation on representing defendants accused of a capital crime, Casual Conversations on Zoom picked back up again on December 20 with Tex Talmadge, assisted by Dudley Kay (on his birthday), leading a discussion on the Civil War.  More than 20 classmates attended, as was the case also for John Mathias.  In each session, some new faces appeared, a valuable aspect of the program allowing an expansion of active Class members beyond the “usual suspects.”
 

Pop-up poetry Zoom readings

Inaugurating what I hope will be a new series of ad hoc pop-up Zoom get-togethers, I am sponsoring a Zoom poetry participatory reading this Tuesday, November 24, 2020, at 5 pm Eastern (US).  Each person on the call will be expected to read two poems (of any authorship) of his or her choosing.  That’s it.  No obligation to pick a poem of a certain length, although some verse works—like Paradise Lost or Howl—might be considered