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Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture September 2010
Internationally renowned Polish poet Adam Zagajewski gives Boston University’s semiannual Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture. He is joined by David Ferry, the Sophie Chantal Hart (GRS’96), a recent graduate of BU’s Creative Writing [...]Program, for a reading and a book signing.
Zagajewski, a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, teaches at the University of Chicago. His recent books include Eternal Enemies and Without End: New and Selected Poems.
Ferry, a distinguished translator of Horace, Virgil, and The Epic of Gilgamesh, also authored the prize-winning Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems.
Duff recently published a book of poems, To the New World.
Hosted by the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Creative Writing Program on September 15, 2010.
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Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture: Charles Simic
Pulitzer Prize-winner and 2007 U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic reads from his work at the semiannual Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture. The Belgrade-born Simic is joined by Creative Writing Program faculty member Robert Pinsky, a three-time U.S. poet [...]laureate, and recent program graduate Rachel DeWoskin (GRS'00), a memoirist, novelist, and poet.
Hosted by Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Creative Writing Program on February 19, 2009.
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Robert Lowell Memorial Reading: Featuring C. K. Williams
Robert Lowell Memorial Reading: In the Spirit of Room 222
Featuring poets C. K. Williams and alumna Eleanor Goodman
December 6, 2012
The Castle, 225 Bay State Road
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Pulitzer Prize Winner Reads Poetry at Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture
The daughter of an oil driller, poet Kay Ryan was raised in the Mojave Desert, attended community college, and later began writing poems using a deck of tarot cards to jump-start them. Ryan says she also found inspiration in the popular [...]Ripley’s Believe It or Not! books. And unlike many of her contemporary colleagues, her poems freely employ rhyme.
Now 65, Ryan struggled for decades to be noticed (she self-published her first collection of verse); but all that changed in recent years. Her work has appeared regularly in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Poetry. A two-term U.S. poet laureate, she has amassed numerous honors, among them the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement. Her latest collection, The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, earned Ryan the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Ryan read from The Best of It at the 2011 Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture, a semiannual lecture that honors American poet Robert Lowell, who famously taught Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, George Starbuck, and many other poets at BU in the 1950s. Also reading was Katherine Hollander (GRS’06,’14), whose poems frequently draw on historical subjects, German and Yiddish fairy tales, and Greek and Inuit myths for inspiration.
Hosted by the Boston University Creative Writing Program on April 25, 2011.
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Creative Writing Program Annual Faculty Reading
Faculty and alumni of Boston University's renowned Creative Writing Program read from both published and forthcoming collections at the annual faculty reading in April. Participants included former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky and National Book [...]Award-winner Ha Jin (GRS'94).
Hosted by Hosted by Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Creative Writing Program on April 28, 2009.
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Creative Writing Program Annual Faculty Reading
Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, Ha Jin, Leslie Epstein, David Ferry, Allegra Goodman, Rosanna Warren, and Tom Yuill read from their novels, poetry collections, and translations at Boston University's Creative Writing Program Annual Faculty Reading.
[...]Hosted by Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Creative Writing Program on December 3, 2007.
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Creative Writing Annual Faculty Reading
Among the creative writing faculty reading from their work at the Annual Faculty Reading are former U.S. poet laureates Louise Glück and Robert Pinsky. Others include David Ferry, a CAS lecturer, Rosanna Warren, a University professor, Leslie [...]Epstein, director of the Creative Writing Program, Jennifer Haigh, a CAS lecturer, and Ha Jin (GRS'93), a CAS professor.
Hosted by Creative Writing Program on January 30, 2007.
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Robert Lowell Memorial Reading: Terrance Hayes and Ani Gjika
National Book Award-winning poet Terrance Hayes and BU alumna Ani Gjika read for the Robert Lowell Memorial Reading series at the BU Castle on February 21, 2013.
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Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading Featuring Henri Cole and Sara Peters
Henri Cole and Sara Peters read at the BU Castle
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