The Harvard Gazette

Jorie Graham

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Tracy K. Smith smiles at the podium

Tracy K. Smith ’94 accepts Harvard Arts Medal

Lamont Library was an incubator for the poet laureate

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DateMay 3, 2019May 3, 2019

Answering questions from President Faust onstage at Sanders Theatre, Wynton Marsalis revisited themes from past Harvard conversations.

Music and meaning, the Marsalis way

Talking with President Faust, jazz great explores the transcendence of creativity and artistry

Arts|

DateOctober 31, 2017November 7, 2017

Wynton Marsalis makes a return engagement

Cultural literacy key topic in conversation with President Faust

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DateOctober 16, 2017October 23, 2017

Bob Dylan, pictured in 1981, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.

Don’t think twice, it’s all right

Nobel Prize in Literature for Bob Dylan gets no argument from Harvard scholars

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DateOctober 13, 2016October 13, 2016

“Jorie Graham’s poetry — inspired, idiosyncratic, ever-changing, beautiful — has been with us for almost 30 years," said Harvard's Helen Vendler. "This selection, a comprehensive sampling, will remind readers of some poems already familiar, and will bring new readers to this poet of depth, empathy, and arresting music.”

Time to turn the page

Acclaimed Harvard authors share highlights from year in reading

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DateDecember 22, 2015March 8, 2019

April is National Poetry Month, though at Harvard every month could be. This book of poems is signed by T.S. Eliot, who graduated from Harvard in 1909. Photo by Thomas Earle

Poetic wandering

Walking tour highlights the sights and sounds of literary Harvard

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DateApril 10, 2015June 19, 2019

As a participant in Harvard’s first literary festival, Jamaica Kincaid (left) offered advice to aspiring writers. “I always say the same thing: Keep reading and writing. The biggest mistake is in believing that somehow your writing must become ‘successful.’ It must be a desire. For all the money you can make, you might as well become a cook or a laundress, but even then, you can still write at night.” Joining Kincaid for the Tuesday session were Samantha Perry David (right) and Johanna Berkman.

Given to composition

Kincaid shares tales from the writing life as part of LitFest panel

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DateApril 30, 2014June 14, 2019

On a chilly, rainy late afternoon — Irish weather — the pews at Memorial Church were nearly full for a memorial honoring the late poet Seamus Heaney. Present were those “who loved Seamus on and off the page,” said Peter Sacks, Harvard’s John P. Marquand Professor of English.

A poet’s own epitaphs

Harvard’s memorial service for Seamus Heaney was lyrically laced with a lifetime of his insights

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DateNovember 8, 2013April 17, 2019

"Studying literature has provided the foundation for all my work in opera, and it’s been so useful that I am shocked that actual literary study is not mandatory for opera musicians of all stripes," said Matt Aucoin '12.

A year set to music

Real-world accomplishment, in abundance, for Aucoin ’12

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DateJuly 29, 2013May 24, 2019

In March, the men’s basketball team shocked the University of New Mexico in its first NCAA victory and second NCAA appearance. The team also nabbed its third straight Ivy League title by defeating Cornell, 65-56, before a sold-out crowd at Lavietes Pavilion.

A year of change, month by month

2012-13 was a year of inventions and ascensions, elections and projections, digitizing and prioritizing

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DateMay 30, 2013

Josh Bell is the new Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in the English Department at Harvard University.

‘Hidden Lake’

Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English Josh Bell reads his poem

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DateOctober 22, 2012February 13, 2018

A close-up image of the text to Josh Bell's poem, "While Josh Sleeps, Vince Neil Recites His 'Love Song for Flight Attendant on Continental Express 1147, to Austin, Texas.'"

‘While Josh Sleeps’

Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English Josh Bell reads his poem

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DateOctober 22, 2012February 13, 2018

Josh Bell is the new Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in the English Department. “I love movies and I tend to have a cinematic conception of the poem anyway,” he says. “A poem is a really great place for a director who’s not inclined to be a director. As a poet you’re producing and giving direction and creating this visual feel and it’s very similar to making movies.”

For whom Josh Bell tolls

New Briggs-Copeland lecturer calls on rocker Vince Neil in latest poems

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DateOctober 22, 2012July 9, 2019

The judges, headed by the poet Leonie Rushforth, called Jorie Graham’s collection “powerful, never predictable” and “a joy” to read.

Jorie Graham wins Forward Prize

Becomes first American woman to receive honor

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DateOctober 3, 2012June 3, 2019

In May, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced the launch of edX, a transformational partnership in online education. Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners.

A time was had by all

Harvard's 375th anniversary year saw everything from the return of ROTC to Lady Gaga

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DateMay 24, 2012June 26, 2019

Matt Aucoin '12 has been engulfed in an intense love affair with music since the age of 6. While at Harvard, Aucoin blazed his own artistic trail. An English concentrator, he wrote and directed two operas, including “Hart Crane,” and served as poetry editor of The Harvard Advocate, even winning a Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for his poetry thesis, "Aftermusic."

A maestro and a wordsmith

Aucoin immersed himself in Harvard’s rich worlds of poetry and music

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DateMay 17, 2012July 22, 2019

Harvard College Professors named

Annual honors recognize excellence in undergraduate teaching

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DateMay 3, 2012June 18, 2019

Love Poems

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DateMay 2, 2012February 13, 2018

The not-so-clean-shaven men performed an Irish step dance for Megan.

Embracing the arts

20th anniversary of festival a feast of dance, music, theater

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DateMay 1, 2012July 22, 2019

"... Harvard, sometimes anxious about its role as a leader in American art, truly got it right when it came to poetry. From its early days to the present moment — but most astonishingly throughout the whole 20th century — Harvard has made a truly unequaled contribution to American poetry,” said Jorie Graham, herself a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. Graham is leading a celebration of Harvard’s lyrical nursery by presenting a communal recitation of poetry titled “Over the Centuries: Poetry at Harvard (A Love Story)” on April 29.

Poetry in motion

Harvard’s practitioners pass craft from generation to generation

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DateApril 18, 2012July 25, 2019

Loren Galler Rabinowitz ’10 (center), a former English concentrator just a month out of Harvard, has been crowned Miss Massachusetts.

Here she is, Miss Massachusetts

Galler Rabinowitz takes pageant detour on way to medical school

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DateJuly 1, 2010

Poetry on ice, paper

Loren Galler Rabinowitz takes the creative approach to pre-med

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DateMay 21, 2010