Last Chance: Deadlines You Need to Know This Week

Welcome to "Last Chance," a regular feature that will provide a list of upcoming deadlines that you may want to know about.

We’ll feature the latest deadlines to take a class, join a bus trip to Foxwoods, register to vote and more.

Here is a list of important dates that Peabody residents will want to know this week.

A little chamber music

The last in the four-part series of on "Approaches to Listening" at the is tonight with baroque cellist Sarah Freiberg and and violinist Maria Benotti in "Connecting to the Baroque." The music begins at 7 p.m. Call 978-531-0100 ext. 10 for more information and to register.

Calling all Ward 1 scholars

The deadline to apply for a college scholarship from the Ward 1 Scholarship Committee is today. Applicants must be graduating seniors who live in Ward 1 and are planning to continue their education beyond high school. A one-page essay on the topic “The Person or Experience that Most Influenced My High School Career,” should be completed and mailed to Martha Holden, Chairperson; Ward 1 Scholarship Committee; 99 Lynnfield St.; Peabody, MA 01960. Applicants must include name, address, telephone number, email address and plans for college or school.

The history of poetry

The Peabody Institute Library holding a five-part lecture series, “History of Poetry,” presented by local poets and professors. This lecture series will be held at the , starting Tuesday. All lectures start at 7 p.m. Here's the schedule:

• Tuesday, May 1: "EcoPoetry." Jennifer Jean will discuss how the tradition of verse pastorals (or "nature poetry") moved into conservationist poetry, which then moved into the "language" poetry movement taking on the cause of environmentalism.
• Tuesday May 8: "The New Criticism School." Jacquelyn Malone will talk about this movement, especially as it concerns John Crowe Ransom and his students, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell and Peter Taylor.
• Tuesday May 15: "Confessional Poetry." Claire Keyes will discuss this vividly self-revelatory verse, which emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
• Tuesday May 22: "The New Formalists." Dawn Paul explores this 1980s movement to reinvigorate American poetry through a return to poetic forms such as sonnets, villanelles and sestinas.
• Tuesday May 29: "Modern Poetry." January O’Neil talks about modern poets such as Mary Oliver, Robert Pinsky and Billy Collins.

Call 978-531-0100 ext. 10 for more information or to register, or register online.