Four Lectures by Lisa Jarnot is the seventh book in the Bagley Wright Lecture Series comprising autobiographical essays that form an intimate uncompromising and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry.Across the lectures or talks given between October of 2020 and December of 2021 Jarnot examines what it means to be a woman in a malecentered experimental tradition to have white privilege and to write poetry. With colloquial ease and wit Jarnot investigates the generative tensions at the intersections of traditional and experimental forms develops relationships between ampamp8216deep gossip and ecstatic connectedness and considers the prophetic tradition in American poetry as inflected through countercultural spirituality. Ultimately Jarnot presents poetry as a calling asking us to consider the means by which poets can envision a new heaven and a new earth.