{"id":1198,"date":"2013-04-05T20:52:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T20:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2013-04-05T20:52:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T20:52:40","slug":"hyam-plutzik-32-american-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2013\/04\/05\/hyam-plutzik-32-american-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyam Plutzik &#8217;32, American Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/04\/IMG_2535.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1203\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/04\/IMG_2535-263x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/04\/IMG_2535-263x300.jpg 263w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/04\/IMG_2535-900x1024.jpg 900w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/04\/IMG_2535.jpg 1710w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a>Our April\/May exhibition will focus on the life and career of Trinity alumnus Hyam Plutzik &#8217;32, who studied under Trinity professor <a href=\"http:\/\/library.trincoll.edu\/research\/watk\/manuscripts\/shepard.htm\">Odell Shepard <\/a>(1884-1967).\u00a0 During his student years, Plutzik served as an editor on the<em> Tripod, <\/em>and helped revive the student yearbook, the <em>Trinity Tablet, <\/em>which had been dormant for many years.\u00a0 Several years after graduation, he returned to Connecticut to spend a \u201cThoreauvian\u201d year in the countryside, undoubtedly inspired by Professor Shepard\u2019s interest in the nineteenth-century Transcendentalists.\u00a0 In 1941, on the eve of America\u2019s entry into World War II, Plutzik wrote a detailed account of his life since graduation in a remarkable 72-page letter to Odell Shepard, the original of which is in the Watkinson, and will be on display. It was Odell Shepard who wrote Plutzik\u2019s recommendation letter to Yale University, where he pursued graduate work on scholarship from Trinity College<\/p>\n<p>Most of the materials on display are on loan from the University of Rochester, which hosts the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/eng\/plutzik\/\">Plutzik Reading Series<\/a>, one of the longest-running reading series in the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/04\/IMG_2534.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1204\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/04\/IMG_2534-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/04\/IMG_2534-300x234.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/04\/IMG_2534-1024x801.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The opening of the exhibition (which is being installed as I write) will be on April 9, from 1:30 &#8211; 3:30pm, and will feature readings of Plutzik&#8217;s work by our own award-winning poet <a href=\"http:\/\/internet2.trincoll.edu\/facProfiles\/Default.aspx?fid=1353304\">Ciaran Berry<\/a>, Artist-in-Residence <a href=\"http:\/\/internet2.trincoll.edu\/facProfiles\/Default.aspx?fid=1005318\">Clare Rossini<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ct.gov\/cct\/cwp\/view.asp?a=2162&amp;q=300692\">Dick Allen<\/a>, the Poet Laureate of Connecticut.\u00a0 Trinity students will also read selections of their own poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our April\/May exhibition will focus on the life and career of Trinity alumnus Hyam Plutzik &#8217;32, who studied under Trinity professor Odell Shepard (1884-1967).\u00a0 During his student years, Plutzik served as an editor on the Tripod, and helped revive the student yearbook, the Trinity Tablet, which had been dormant for many years.\u00a0 Several years after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,39,8,21,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}