Booking and details
Dates Thursday, February 23, 2023
Tickets Free, Registration Required
Duration 8:00pm - 9:00pm (ET)
Shakespeare’s Sonnets are well-known, but did you know that the sonnet form has also been used by more modern authors to explore issues of social justice and race? Join Donna Denizé, a poet and award-winning English teacher, for an exploration of the history of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, their more modern use, and ways to engage students in the analysis of sonnets in new and powerful ways.
Mentor Teacher
Donna Denizé
Of Haitian American descent, Donna Denizé holds a B.A. from Stonehill College and an M.A in Renaissance drama from Howard University, where she was also a student of poet Robert Hayden, while he served as Consultant to the Library of Congress. She has contributed to scholarly books and journals, and she is the author of a chapbook, The Lover’s Voice (1997) and a book, Broken Like Job (2005). She currently Chairs the English Department at St. Albans School for boys, where she teaches Freshman English; a junior/senior elective in Shakespeare, and Crossroads in American Identity, a course she designed years ago and which affords her the opportunity to do what she most enjoys—exploring not only the cultural and inter-textual crossroads of literary works but also their points of human unity.