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Tag: Poetry
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Six fresh books worth perusing
Among these recent titles by Harvard writers, there’s something for everyone.
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Poetry in motion
Something about Harvard, one of the world’s most rigorous universities also helps poets to blossom. It has a lyric legacy that spans hundreds of years and helped to shape the world’s literary canon.
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Artist touts ‘primacy’ of images
The beauty of art, says William Kentridge in his Norton Lectures, is that it makes “a safe place for uncertainty.”
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Women’s Week kicks into high gear
Today marked the opening of Women’s Week, a campuswide event that recognizes and celebrates the diverse organizations for women at Harvard.
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Harvard, then and now
Published to commemorate Harvard’s 375th anniversary, “Explore Harvard,” a collection of contemporary and historical photographs, showcases the myriad intellectual exchanges that make the University a citadel of learning.
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Poetry in the Yard
Homi K. Bhabha, the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities and the Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, discusses his remembrance of September 11. Professor Bhabha’s project reflects on the decade since the tragedy through a series of poems installed within Harvard Yard.
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On summer break, a poem
An undergraduate on summer break is inspired to write a poem celebrating Harvard’s 375th anniversary.
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Tunnel vision
At Adams House, a tradition thrives as students annually paint art in the passageways.
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Breaking the sonnet barrier
Poet and fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Anna Maria Hong takes the traditional sonnet form and breaks it wide open in her new volume of poetry.
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Why and how
Professor Marjorie Garber’s new book examines “why we read literature, why we study it, and why it doesn’t need to have an application someplace else in order to be definitive in its talking about human life and culture.”
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Imagination and Logos: Essays on C.P. Cavafy
Panagiotis Roilos, professor of Modern Greek studies and of comparative literature, edits this volume of essays by international scholars exploring the work of C.P. Cavafy, one of the most important 20th century European poets.
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Claudio Guillén
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 1, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Claudio Guillén, Harry Levin Professor of Literature, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Guillén was a tireless promoter of comparative literature.
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Art for art’s sake
Students stepped outside their comfort zones and explored their creative sides as part of a new range of programs offered during winter break.
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Gazette staffer wins poetry prize
For the second year in a row, Sarah Sweeney of the Harvard Gazette has won a poetry prize from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund.
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Julia Budenz, poet and Harvard staffer, 76
Poet and Harvard staff member Julia Budenz died in Cambridge on Dec. 11 at the age of 76.
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Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Darnton, director of the Harvard University Library, backtracks to 18th century Paris and the police crackdown on poetry. But verse persevered through a “viral” network of citizens, who smuggled poetry by any means they could.
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Extension School instructor debuts online lit mag
Talking Writing, a monthly online literary magazine, has released its first issue with Harvard Extension School instructor Martha Nichols as editor in chief.
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Vendler on Dickinson
Renowned critic Helen Vendler takes on Amherst’s own Emily Dickinson in her new book, “Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries.”
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Hard science, soft verse
Ron Spalletta, whose first poem has just been published, is a clerkship manager at Harvard Medical School.
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Here she is, Miss Massachusetts
Barely a month into the world as a new Harvard College graduate, Loren Galler Rabinowitz has already skyrocketed to success as the new Miss Massachusetts.
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Other notable 1950 graduates
In the 60th Anniversary Report for the Class of 1950, where alumni update classmates on the happenings in their lives, a look at some other graduates of note.
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Renaissance man
A veteran Italian-American chef, Rosario Del Nero rediscovers the joys of learning at the Extension School, and wins an academic prize.
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Poetry on ice, paper
Loren Galler Rabinowitz ’10 used her creativity, intelligence, and drive to evolve from professional skating to Harvard, and soon to medical school.
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What comes after
Joanna Klink, the Briggs-Copeland Poet in the English Department, is out with a new book chronicling a failed relationship.
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The Art of the Sonnet
Stephen Burt, an English professor and renowned poet and critic, and co-writer David Mikics have collected 100 sonnets — the longest-lived poetic form — and offer their insights on each 14-line masterpiece.
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A church of words
Poet Jericho Brown writes often about death, looking it in the eye, but don’t make the mistake of thinking him an unhappy man.
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Lessons from the Earth
The new Harvard Community Garden, dedicated Sunday, is expected to inspire lessons in sustainability, community, and academic collaboration.
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The Poetics of the Everyday: Creative Repetition in Modern American Verse
Siobhan Phillips, a junior fellow in Harvard’s Society of Fellows, revisits those well-known poetic masters — Stevens, Frost, Bishop, and Merrill — and analyzes how they transformed quotidian rituals into lyrical fodder.
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Emily as art
A Harvard artist and wordsmith takes a turn at reimaging the poems of Emily Dickinson.
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Social change at ground level
Scott Ruescher’s interest in Latin America spawned a lengthy career in volunteer work — not to mention, he’s also a poet.
