The Harvard Gazette

Lucie Brock-Broido

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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

Arts|

DateMay 3, 2019May 3, 2019

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

Arts|

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

Arts|

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

"... 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