Every year, members of the graduating class at Mount Allison University choose a professor they would like to hear from one last time. It’s called “The Last Lecture” and this year, that last lecture was delivered on April 4 by Robert Lapp, head of the Mount Allison English Department.
Lapp began by noting that this literally will be his last lecture since he’s retiring this spring after 25 years of teaching at the university.
In this radio piece produced by local journalist Bruce Wark, we hear excerpts from Robert Lapp’s last lecture called “Telling it slant, How to tell the truth.” We’ll also hear his thoughts on retirement, how poetry helps us to see the truth and, also, how eco-poetry helps us to cope with the often unpleasant and paradoxical truths of climate change.
Robert Lapp was introduced by Mount Allison graduating student Erin Dumville:
