Poetry

06.24.2015

Festival of the Arts on campus hosts a multidisciplinary performance of poets, dancers, and musicians.

01.30.2015

The death of poet Mark Strand inspires reflections on his work’s enduring, personal impact.

Spring/Summer 2013

Rosanna Warren brings academic mischief to the Committee on Social Thought.

May–June/14

An excerpt from Maureen McLane’s This Blue.

May–June/14

Poet, critic, and scholar Maureen McLane ­argues for poetry that synthesizes, “with passion and knowledge,” what it means to be human.

Oct/52

Of sturdy stuff are poets made, or else they’d never make the grade.

Mar–Apr/14

Going to the Law School helped Natalie Shapero, JD’11, let her poetry loose.

02.07.2014

Poet Campbell McGrath, AB’84, explains how writers are like baseball players, what’s wrong with novels, and why he was banned from several frats in the mid-’80s.

02.03.2014

Poet Dorothea Lasky leaves her audience awestruck.

09.03.2013

Rosanna Warren shares her recommendations for a cruel summer.

Sept–Oct/12
In the summer of 1912 Poetry magazine, then a newborn upstart, asked writers to send their “best verse.”
Sept–Oct/12

How Homer’s ancient epic presaged the poetry slam.