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Dowling College Presents Poetry From Around the Globe
In celebrating the Annual Theme of "Globalism: One World" Dowling
College is proud to present Poetry From Around the Globe on Monday, May
12, 2008 from 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. in the Fortunoff Hall Hunt Room at the
historic Rudolph Campus in Oakdale. This event is free and open to the
public. For additional information, please call 1-800-DOWLING or visit
www.dowling.edu.
As the presentations for this year's Annual Theme on Globalism
conclude, Professor Elio Zappulla of Dowling's English Department will
close the series by reading a series of poems, largely in translation,
from a wide variety of world poets from every continent. This will not
be a lecture, but a reading that celebrates the glorious art of poetry,
an art that transcends national borders and emphasizes the common
humanity of all the peoples of Planet Earth.
Elio Zappulla is a Long Island native who has never lived anywhere
else. He is Professor of English and Humanities at Dowling. In the
past, he has served as Chairman of the English Department which is
composed of outstanding and talented colleagues and some of the best
adjunct teachers in the field. He has been associated with Dowling
College for forty years, since the days when it was called Adelphi
Suffolk College. He has a B.A. from Brooklyn College, an M.A. from
Brooklyn that resulted from the award of a teaching fellowship, and a
Ph.D. in literature and languages from Columbia University, where he was
a scholarship student.
Besides his long association with Dowling, he also taught Humanities
classes, Italian language and literature and French language and
literature at Stony Brook University and Brooklyn College. At one time,
he was a central office administrator in a Long Island School District.
He has lectured extensively throughout Suffolk and Nassau counties,
presented papers, edited newsletters, published a number of articles on
literary figures, edited books on a variety of subjects from the
philosophy of science, the future of higher education, and the problems
of school administration to New York Civil Practice Law, the acting
profession, and American World War II internment camps, plus some
novels, poetry and plays. Several years ago, he made an English blank
verse translation of Dante's Inferno, which was published by Random
House both as a Pantheon Books hardcover and a Vintage paperback.
About Dowling College
Dowling College is an independent, coeducational college that serves more than 6,500 students at
its historic Rudolph Campus on the banks of the Connetquot River in Oakdale, NY, and the 105-acre
Brookhaven Campus in eastern Long Island and a business center located near the Nassau-Suffolk
border in Melville. Dowling offers Bachelor′s, Master′s, and Doctoral degrees in several
disciplines through its four schools: Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Education.
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