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British poet Simon Armitage has had a prolific writing career. Beginning with his first collection of poems in 1989 and spanning 13 volumes since, Armitage??s poetry has grown up with a whole generation of British children, taking its place in the high school English literature curriculum alongside Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney. As well as teaching creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom, Armitage embarks regularly on reading tours and on Tuesday, he held a poetry reading in the Woodberry Poetry Room in the Houghton Library.Armitage’s profile has been steadily...
...Armitage read original poems and translations published throughout the span of his career. “You’re beautiful because you’re classically trained. / I’m ugly because I associate piano wire with strangulation,” began one of Armitage??s poems that drew laughter from the listeners. Another poem, titled “The Shout,” contained the lines “We were testing the range / of the human voice.” Armitage said that the poem, which recounted a childhood memory in northern England...
...Ph.D. degree from Columbia—one of the few remaining universities that can lay claim to a required great books curriculum. In the late 1980s, Harris even taught in the university’s Core program, which emphasizes a grounding in canonical texts. Damrosch and Armitage??also Columbia expatriates—once taught in the same curriculum...
...Defense.” In response to numerous surveys confirming falling opinions of the United States around the world, the Commission on Smart Power—a bipartisan project chaired by Kennedy School of Government professor Joseph S. Nye, Jr. and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage??has suggested that the emphasis on a narrow “War on Terror” driven by self-interest should be replaced by “an American commitment to providing for the global good.” More than a symbol, then, the act of reconsidering...
...record, I regularly teach a large introductory course, (Historical Studies B-40, “Pursuits of Happiness”) in the Core. It typically enrolls 150 to 200 students. Tierney didn’t consider it worth mentioning. Nor did he discover David Armitage??s course on the Declaration of Independence, Joyce Chaplin’s on “The Nine Lives of Benjamin Franklin,” or Jill Lepore’s new core course, “Liberty and Slavery.” He did mention Vincent Brown’s course...