Lecture: Creative Responses to War
Daniel Swift

Assistant Professor of English, Skidmore College

November 4, 2011, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Discussions with guests from Skidmore and surrounding communities on the projects they created about war. A brown bag lunch event series. Coffee and cookies provided. Organized in conjunction with the Tang exhibition Behind Those Planes Are The Stars.

Daniel Swift’s writing has appeared in the Nation, Bookforum, the New York Times Book Review, and the Times Literary Supplement. Swift’s book Bomber County (2010) weaves together his search for two lost histories from World War II: the circumstances regarding his grandfather’s death while in the Royal Air Force and poetry on the War. While tracing these narratives, Bomber County abounds with voices and stories from the War.

Daniel Swift, Bomber County, 2010

Filed Under: Talks + Readings

Published: October 5th 2011