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...Review, which is based in Houghton Library at Harvard, currently prints 2,000 to 2,500 copies of each semiannual issue, which is “fairly small for a literary journal,” according to Editor Christina A. Thompson. These copies are sold to bookstores, university libraries, and subscribers...
...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 rising over the past 15 years since he quit his job as a probation officer and became a full-time poet. His output is marked by an impressive versatility; he has written for radio and TV, produced song lyrics for award...
Among the stately high ceilings and rare books collections of Houghton Library’s Edison-Newman Room, acclaimed poet Simon Armitage read select poems evoking images of his native English landscape before a packed audience last night. Speaking some lines with slow, measured syllables and others with rapid, beat-like inflections, Armitage led his audience to laugh at his unexpected images, tap their fingers to the beat of his words, and lean forward to catch his every fading syllable. “Simon’s poetry behaves characteristically in a very recognizable geography of everyday life...
...largest and most dynamic” change to the neighborhood in many years. “There’s this massive development that’s going to be dropped in the middle of the community almost without notice,” said Bruce E. Houghton, local resident and president of his namesake chemical corporation. which operates a plant in Allston. “Where was that going to be discussed?” Houghton, a member of the mayor-appointed Harvard Allston Task Force, said that the BRA had failed to critically examine the Harvard-sponsored plan...
...many people will work per shift,” said Luvish. “We usually have twelve ushers per shift, but we’re considering going back to eleven.” Lewis B. Day, who is in charge of hiring for the technical services department at Houghton Library, is only hiring four students this semester. “We’re very mindful of hiring and the budget this year,” he said. Other employers said students who had previously worked for that employer would be preferentially asked to return first before new hiring...