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Growing up, Kevin spent a part of each of his summers in Louisiana, where his mother was raised, and in the summer before college, he began to recognize it as a locus for his poetry. In the summer of 1988, he says, "I fell in love with [the Pulitzer-Prize winning poet] Rita Dove." He read and re-read her collection titled Thomas and Beulah, and then began to listen to his family's stories in a way he hadn't before, with a historic and poetic ear. "I realized I could write about my family, that...
CLCS founded in 1984, has developed into an active humanities institution providing a locus for interdisciplinary discussions. The audience includes a mix of Harvard faculty and graduates as well as independent scholars and area residents...
Normally a locus of commercial activity, Central Square has recently been plagued by a decline in customers, due in part to an increase in crime and homelessness...
Councillor Alice K. Wolf said the Harvard Square area is particularly popular because "it's a locus. It's right at a T-station...
When the DNA locus of the encoding of these antibody producers was identified, he says, it was found that this locus was always involved in the same region as Burkitt's lymphoma. The insertion of the lymphoma abnormality, a gene known as c-myc, was responsible for the rise of the tumor...