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Tag: Poetry
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Nation & World
Poetic wandering
This walking tour pairs classic Harvard landmarks with a sampling of the poets connected to the University — all in honor of National Poetry Month.
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‘It seemed to me miraculous that you could actually hear Shakespeare or Keats speaking from the page’
Interview with Professor Helen Vendler as part of the Experience series.
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Honoring, and feeling, Heaney’s presence
A new suite at Adams House captures the spirit of the late poet Seamus Heaney and offers students a quiet space in which to write and reflect.
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Revealed in verse
Henri Cole is working on a new collection of poems while a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
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‘Dream Songs’ and demons
This month John Berryman’s longtime publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, is marking his 100th birthday by reissuing some of his best-known work.
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Is that Wallace Stevens?
Helen Vendler joined a Woodberry Poetry Room event to celebrate the recent discovery of recordings of readings by Wallace Stevens circa 1954.
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May Day poetry at Lowell House
As part of the traditional daylong May Day celebration, a poetry reading by the Lowell House Poemical Society took place May 1 at Lowell House, with festivities also featuring an early morning waltz on the Weeks Bridge, a bacchanal, and a recital with the historic Lowell House bells.
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The poetry of slam
The Harvard slam poetry group Speak Out Loud will perform during Visitas, the weekend event that welcomes admitted freshmen.
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A new chapter in verse
The Woodberry Poetry Room is sponsoring a series focused on rethinking the possibilities of the creative-writing workshop.
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Between the lines
Three Harvard faculty members divulge an influential book in this installment of Harvard Bound.
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All for love
In honor of Valentine’s Day, the Gazette partnered with the Woodberry Poetry Room in selecting a poem fitting of the holiday devoted to love.
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Poets, meet translators
Noted Spanish-language poets are visiting Harvard this week in a first-of-its-kind event that pairs the poets and their works with top translators in the field.
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Poetry spreads its web
At month’s end, Professor Elisa New will begin teaching “Poetry in America,” her first digital course on HarvardX.
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The poetry of water
Harvard anthropologist Steven Caton made his name studying tribal poetry in Yemen three decades ago. But it was memories of a tribal war that drew him back to that nation in 2001, and the scarcity of water he discovered there launched him into a new avenue of investigation.
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Poetic justice, of a sort
Former Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse ’68 and poet August Kleinzahler apply personal touch to Phi Beta Kappa sendoff.
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Calvert Watkins dies at 80
Calvert Watkins, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Linguistics and the Classics, emeritus, died March 20 at the age of 80.
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Poetry in the making
David McCann, the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature, is spreading his love of sijo, a poetic form.
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‘Hidden Lake’
Josh Bell, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English, reads his poem “Hidden Lake.”
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‘While Josh Sleeps’
Josh Bell, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English, reads his poem “While Josh Sleeps.”
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For whom Josh Bell tolls
Poet Josh Bell, the new Briggs-Copeland lecturer, calls on the spirit of rocker Vince Neil in his latest poems.
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Jorie Graham wins Forward Prize
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham has become the first American woman ever to win one of the U.K.’s most prestigious poetry accolades, the Forward Prize for best collection.
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The sounds of nature, as music
The Woodberry Poetry Room hosts an evening of forest recordings and verse about nature, twinning sounds with wordplay.
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The literary landscape
Sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room, the Literary Homecoming drew representatives from the English Department, the Harvard Review, the Harvard Advocate, Speak Out Loud, Tuesday magazine, among others.
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Voice packed with passion
Bryonn Bain introduced his new class, “Hip Hop and Spoken Word: Theater Performance Laboratory,” to a young crowd at Farkas Hall during Harvard’s Shopping Week.
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The poetry of achievement
Thirty high school students from the Boston area gathered for the Crimson Summer Academy’s annual poetry slam. The young scholars spend three consecutive summers on the Harvard campus, amid classes, projects, field trips, and cultural activities to achieve their dream: success at college.
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A time was had by all
A fond look back at the memorable events of Harvard’s 375th year.
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A poem for Harvard
Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, returns to Harvard to read a poem at Morning Exercises. As Harvard celebrates its 375th anniversary, he will reprise his 1986 “Villanelle for an Anniversary,” composed for the University’s 350th.
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HGSE student wins literary prizes
Harvard Graduate School of Education student Rebecca Givens Rolland has won two recent literary prize for her prose and poetry.
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Love Poems
Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Jorie Graham celebrated the legacy of Harvard poets such as T.S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings, and Wallace Stevens, with a student performance of their verse in “Over the Centuries: Poetry at Harvard (A Love Story).”