Tag: Woodberry Poetry Room

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    ‘The steam and chatter of typewriters’

    A typewriter belonging to John Ashbery now has a home in the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard, the late poet’s alma mater.

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    Hands on a typewriter.
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    Places we love

    Harvard students, professors, alumni, and staff talk about the places on campus they love most.

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    Harvard square as seen from above
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    A close reading of Elizabeth Bishop

    Megan Marshall ’77 talks about the personal and scholarly perspective behind her new biography of the poet Elizabeth Bishop.

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    Spring events preview: What to experience this season

    Get out your calendars — here are the must-see events at Harvard this spring.

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    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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    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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    Lost voices of 1953

    Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room uncovered forgotten audio from a 1953 conference on the novel, including the confident voice of the newly famous Ralph Ellison.

    9 minutes
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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.

    4 minutes
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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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    Found in translation

    An associate curator at the Woodberry Poetry Room is also a translator who has brought a Chinese poet’s work to life for a widening audience.

    4 minutes
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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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    Poetic greetings

    A Woodberry Poetry Room exhibition features the “Phone-a-Poem” archive, a Cambridge-based service that for 25 years allowed callers to dial in and listen to a famous poet recite his or her work as it was played back on an answering machine.

    4 minutes
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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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    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.

    4 minutes
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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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    Emily as art

    A Harvard artist and wordsmith takes a turn at reimaging the poems of Emily Dickinson.

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    Harvard has new poetry Web site

    On an abnormally sweltering spring day, one would expect to see patches of Harvard students sunbathing in the Yard, not reading poetry inside Lamont Library. But a throng of students, faculty, and staff gathered inside the modest-sized Woodberry Poetry Room on a sultry Tuesday (April 28) evening to celebrate the release of Poetry@Harvard, a new…

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    Poet/critics and the state of the art

    A triumvirate of prominent poet-critics – each with strong Harvard ties – took on the meaning of contemporary poetry last week. And despite a lively discussion, none of them provided a comprehensive definition.

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