Wesleyan’s Warriors and Poets of World War II

The intensely personal experiences of World War II are most profoundly and emotionally recorded in the letters of Wesleyan servicemen and in the works of poets. An examination of their writing suggests that the story of war is never more accurately told than by the warriors who experienced it and the writers who interpreted it. Join this panel as they discuss the role of Wesleyan chroniclers and poets amid the violence of World War II.

Presenters: Richard Hanley MALS ’93, Assistant Professor of Communications, Quinnipiac University, and writer/producer of Connecticut and World War II, a three-part television documentary recently aired on Connecticut Public Television; Zoe Levy ’03, theater and film major; Dylan Southard ’03, Italian studies and theater major