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Poetry

Yusef Komunyakaa

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Lowell Poetry Reading Features Pulitzer Winner Tonight

October 15, 2015

Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Hass, a former US poet laureate, draws on his lifelong observation of nature in and around the Bay area. Photo by Shoey Sindel

Poetry

A Man for All Seasons

March 23, 2015

Boston University BU, Lowell Lecture reading, Pulitzer winner Sharon Olds, Renee Emerson, poetry

lectures

Renowned “Poet of the Personal” to Read Tonight

November 20, 2014

Robert Pinsky, PoemJazz Sessions, Boston University Digital Learning Initiative, buX, edX

Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky’s PoemJazz Sessions

November 18, 2014

nightlife, Kings Back Bay Open Mic Night

Comedy

Nightlife: Open Mic Night at Kings Bowl America

November 5, 2014

poet Karl Kirchwey, Creative Writing Program director, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences

Faculty

Award-Winning Poet New Creative Writing Program Director

October 20, 2014

Theodore Lockhart, United Methodist minister, author, Before Blackness, Lying After Truth, In Rabbitude, and Other Poems

Race

The Poet Preacher

October 16, 2014

things to do near Boston University BU, Boston Poetry Slam, Cantab Lounge, Cambridge

Local

Nightlife: Boston Poetry Slam

October 8, 2014

robert pinsky, art of poetry, mooc, massive open online classroom, online education

Academics

Pinsky Teaches Poetry…to the World

September 27, 2014

Boston University BU, Chinese author poet Ha Jin, American Academy of Arts and Letters, College of Arts and Sciences CAS professor

Accolades

Ha Jin Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters

May 27, 2014

Boston University BU, Speak for Yourself, slam poetry club, spoken word, learning how to express yourself

Arts & Culture

Learning to Speak for Yourself

April 29, 2014

Boston University Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading, Paul Muldoon, Rebekah Stout

Arts & Culture

Paul Muldoon Headlines BU’s Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading Tonight

April 17, 2014

Boston University Creative Writing, Annual Faculty Reading

Literature

BU’s Literary Lions Read Tonight

March 26, 2014

Boston University BU, valentines day poetry, Assembly line valentine, relationship violence, Jessica Bozek instructor, College of Arts and Sciences, CAS Writing Program, Poetry Now

Arts & Culture

Assembly Line Valentines

February 13, 2014

Boston University BU, poetry literature, UROP, research,

Poetry

Poetry as the Heard Word

October 10, 2013

Boston University BU, Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet John Ashbery, Former Robert Pinsky Global Fellow Sophie Grimes

Poetry

John Ashbery Headlines Lowell Poetry Reading

October 3, 2013

Boston University BU, US poet laureate Robert Pinsky, Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters, Cambridge Public Library, Louisa Solano Poetry Series

Faculty

Former Poet Laureate Pinsky Designs Anthology for Aspiring Poets

October 1, 2013

Boston University BU, School of Medicine BUSM, artis initiative, cancer medical patients, College of Fine Arts Arts Outreach Initiative CFA, American Music Therapy Association, DIWAN

Poetry

Arts Initiative Dances from Stage to Clinic

May 10, 2013

Boston University BU, Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading, National Book Award–winner Terrance Hayes, Ani Gjika,

University News

Poems That Invoke Cultural Figures, from Harriet Tubman to Dr. Seuss

February 20, 2013

Carrie Preston, associate professor of English, Boston University, Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance book, Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, and the Pedagogies of Transnational Performance book

Faculty

Linking the Ivory Tower with the Street

January 29, 2013

Linking the Ivory Tower with the Street