Tag: John Ashbery

  • Nation & World

    ‘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.

    7 minutes
    Hands on a typewriter.
  • 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.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    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.

    12 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Treasure island

    Houghton Library illustrates how the stuff of great literature is conserved, from the first jumbled box to the final neat archive.

    11 minutes